McCullough, whose acclaimed books include "Truman," "John Adams" and "1776," answers those questions but spends only half a page of "The Wright Brothers" on East Central Indiana, little more than ...

In the last 107 pages of the book there is vindication and recognition of the Wright Brothers here at home, in England, Germany and especially France. It is 1908.

Few Americans have been as justly celebrated as Wilbur and Orville Wright, the two Dayton, Ohio, bicycle makers who made the first powered flight on the sands of Kitty Hawk, N.C., in December 1903 ...

To fix that, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David McCullough delved into Wright-related diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks and family correspondence for his new book, The Wright Brothers, due out May 5.