Story of Wright brothers retold

Found by his teacher tinkering with bits of wood at his desk, the younger of the Wright brothers duo told her that he was making a machine which he and his brother were going to fly someday.
That was in 1878, when Orville Wright was seven years old. And 25 years later, Orville and his brother Wilbur changed history. The age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough has come out with a book "The Wright Brothers" which tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly.

The book, published by Simon & Schuster, is replete with anecdotes, pictures and diary notings. McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.
"Orville's first teacher in grade school, Ida Palmer, would remember him at his desk tinkering with bits of wood. Asked what he was up to, he told her he was making a machine of a kind that he and his brother were going to fly someday," McCullough writes.

Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing.