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Tobin, James To Conquer the Air : The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
Free Press 2003 0684856883 / 9780684856889 Hardcover Fine Fine Hardcover
New. Fine in publisher's quarter bound boards in like dust jacket Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.This extraordinarily well-written and deeply nuanced work is the best of the recent spate of books celebrating the Wright Brothers and the 100-year anniversary of their invention of the airplane. Award-winning biographer Tobin (Ernie Pyle's War) provides a detailed yet truly exciting tale of the brothers' lifelong effort to stand "against the wave of popular doubt about the possibility of human flight." The book's strength resides in Tobin's careful depiction of two main elements of the Wright story. First, Tobin provides the fullest and most sympathetic account yet written of the close-knit Wright family and the impact of its ethic-"the Wrights versus the world"-on the brothers, at the same time that he recaptures the personal qualities that were forgotten after they became aviation icons. ("Will had a devastating dry wit, but there was more fun in Orville.") Second, Tobin is stunningly effective in presenting the intertwining lives of the brothers and an amazing cast of friends and competitors, including such inventors as Samuel Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian and creator of the doomed Aerodrome, and his friend and fellow flight enthusiast Alexander Graham Bell; Octave Chanute, one of the brothers' earliest supporters; and Glenn Curtiss, the brothers' main competitor. Tobin's final chapter, which details Wilbur Wright's historic flight in 1909 circling Manhattan, is a definitive account of the crowning final triumph of the Wrights' career. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist: In this centenary of the airplane, Tobin re-creates the course, in its technological and biographical dimensions, of the Wright brothers' claim to its invention. This is such commonplace knowledge as to make its reiteration seemingly unnecessary, but its acknowledgment was not conceded at the time by the partisans of Samuel Langley and Glenn Curtiss. Tobin adopts this disputatious aspect to the Wrights' story to distinguish his work from standard biographies such as Fred Howard's Wilbur and Orville (1987), so he pays careful attention to the differences between the Wrights' attack on the problem of flight and Langley's. Langley had advantages: scientific eminence, publicity, and a government subsidy, but he never personally tried to fly, nor measured the performance of wings, as the Wrights did. Confirming their superior methods and diligence, Tobin proceeds to their difficulties in capitalizing on their flying machine, ascribing woes to their own reticence and the rapidity of rivals' progress. Perceiving the Wrights' us-against-the-world mentality, Tobin transforms thorough research into a flowing narrative with news for even connoisseurs of Kitty Hawk. Gilbert Taylor Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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