- Aeronautics, Biography, History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story of the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly. On a winter day in 1903, on the remote Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, changed history.
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Earnest, classical in form, resolved and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- David McCullough
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Simon and Schuster, Simon and Schuster Paperbacks
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781471159114
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David Gaub McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a “master of the art of narrative history.” He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, twice winner of the National Book Award, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
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