The Wright Brothers and the Wives They Did Not Have

Sep 16th 2025 5:40am EDT

1,792 words A few years ago, the late popular historian David McCullough published a biography of Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the airplane. The book was deservedly successful, and I read it entirely for pleasure myself. The brothers were typical of their Northern European Protestant race: intelligent, soft-spoken, hard-working, plain almost to the point […]

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