Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

✍ Scribed by Goldstone, Lawrence

• Book ID: 107825663
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 6 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780345538031

✦ Synopsis

From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation.

The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright Brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision of unyielding and profoundly American personalities. On one side, a pair of tenacious siblings who together had solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. On the other, an audacious motorcycle racer whose innovative aircraft became synonymous in the public mind with death-defying stunts. For more than a decade, they battled each other in court, at air shows, and in the newspapers. The outcome of this contest of wills would shape the course of aviation history--and take a fearsome toll on the men involved.

Birdmen sets the engrossing story of the Wrights' war with Curtiss against the thrilling backdrop of the early years...