PREMIER EVENT: DAVID MCCULLOUGH

 

 

 

 

PREMIER EVENT: David McCullough

Tuesday, June 16, 7:30pm

The Wright Brothers

Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway Street, Redwood City

 

Join us for a very special evening with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, David McCullough, to celebrate his new book, The Wright Brothers. In it we learn the story-behind-the-story of Wilbur and Orville Wright, the brothers who inspired and taught the world to fly. We know all about their achievements and the history of flight, but who were the Wilbur brothers really?

McCullough, drawing on the immense collection of the Wright Papers - including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence - shows us that Wilbur was unquestionably a genius, and Orville had rare mechanical ingenuity. Both brothers had an average public school education, very little money, and no contacts in high places to help them with their "mission" to take to the air, yet these determined men changed history in 1903 in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

The book also tells the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might have gone very differently for them.

David McCullough has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams, and twice received the National Book Award, for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.


Event date: 
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 7:30pm
Event address: 
Fox Theatre
2215 Broadway St.
Redwood City, CA
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