The story of the Wright brothers is written by the two-time Pulitzer winner David Mccullough, who is perhaps America’s leading historian, with biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams, as well as books about the Brooklyn Bridge and the Johnstown flood.

The Wright Brothers: The Dramatic Story-Behind-The-Story tells the “profoundly American story” of Wilbur and Orville Wright, two brothers who did not have money, contacts or a high quality education, but did have prodigious talent and a great dream. The book mines private correspondence, notebooks and diaries, and reveals information about the little-known contribution of the Wright sister, Katharine, “without whom things might well have gone differently” for the brothers.