The DOI Reads Book Club

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
12:30 PM  |  (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)  |  1 hour

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The DOI Reads Book Club will again be meeting virtually on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm ET to discuss our next Book Club selection, The Wright Brothers by David McCullough.

As always, all are welcome and you don't need to finish the book to join us. Just bring your questions, insights and thoughts about this book.

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The Wright Brothers
Author:  David McCullough 
Publisher: ‎ Simon & Schuster (May 2016)
Paperback: ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10: ‎ 1476728755

On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot.

Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed.

In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. 

-- from Amazon

 

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