The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (576 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 039330695X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 608 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Arthur C. W. Bethel said Chracter and Invention. This well-researched, well-written book shows how the Wright brothers' intertwined characters made them both wonderfully systematic, analytic, and innovative on the one hand and, less likeably, secretive, litigious and rigid. All these traits were their family heritage: their loving parents encouraged inquiry and invention, but their father constantly involved himself in acrimonious controversy and with his co-religionists. Crouch places the Wrights' wor. The Wright Biography! For anyone really interested in the story of human flight, Tom Crouch's "The Bishop's Boys" is the book for you. Crouch has done a masterful job of telling the Wright's story, and what a story it is! Most legendary figures of history crumble when their lives are examined-- Wilbur and Orivlle Wright are more amazing the more you learn about them. Thanks to Crouch and "The Bishop's Boys", the entire story, warts and all, is finally put before the public in. Good Book Great book about the Wright brothers.
He shows us exactly how and why these two obscure bachelors from Dayton, Ohio, were able to succeed where so many better-trained, better-financed rivals had failed. The reissue of this definitive biography heralds the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight. Brilliant, self-trained engineers, the Wright brothers had a unique blend of native talent, character, and family experience that perfectly suited them to the task of invention but left them ill-prepared to face a world of skeptics, rivals, and officials. Using a treasure trove of Wright family correspondence and diaries, Tom Crouch skillfully weaves the story of the airplane's invention into the drama of a unique and unforgettable family. 50 b/w photographs
. ( June ).Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Photos. He died in 1948. Crouch ( A Dream of Wings ) interweaves family drama with the history of aviation in a riveting saga of ingenuity, competing claims, public adulation and technical innovation. From Publishers Weekly Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville, was an itinerant churchman embroiled in controversies who bequeathed to his sons firmness of purpose, stubborn independence and overweening pride, qualities that were to inform their lives. There have been a number of fine biographies of the Wright brothers; this one ranks with the best. The book also contains fresh glimpses of rival pioneers--American, French, German--and their magnificent flying machines. Orville, who finally reaped a fortune from