Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

From the author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were both self-taught, both great readers and believers in the importance of literacy, both men born poor who by their own efforts reached positions of power and prominence—Lincoln as president of the United...

Presents a biography about the French nobleman who assisted the American colonists in their struggle for freedom from England during the Revolutionary War.