First Friday Book Synopsis

I am sure you join me in great anticipation of David McCullough‘s next book, The Wright Brothers (Simon & Schuster, 2015), scheduled for release on May 15.

He is certainly one of the great writers of our time.  Truman (Simon & Schuster, 1992) is a terrific and comprehensive biography of America’s favorite autocratic president.  The Greater Journey:  Americans in Paris (Simon & Schuster, 2011) makes you want to book a flight and get in a time machine to travel backwards.

There have been plenty of books about the Wright Brothers, and their escapades with the flying machine.  But, something tells me that in McCullough’s book, we will experience that familiar story in a way that no one else has provided it.

McCullough is a two-time Pulitzer prize winner.  He also wrote books about John Adams and Albert Einstein.  He weaves details in a storybook fashion that few writers can copy.  I found this positive quote about him on the web site for the National Endowment for the Humanities, of which he was a 2003 Jefferson lecturer:  “David McCullough throws himself into the research of his subjects, tracing the roads they traveled, reading the books they read, and seeing the homes they lived in. His diligence pays off in detailed and engaging narratives.”

We are just under two months away from its release, and his new book is already # 1 on the Amazon.com best-selling list in scientists, aerospace, and history.  Overall, it is # 303 in book sales – two months away!

And, just for credibility, my order for the book is in the queue.

We may see this book at the First Friday Book Synopsis.  That all depends upon how “businessy” the book turns out to be.

In the meantime, May 15 cannot come soon enough.