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Wilbur and Orville Wright are two of the best innovators ever sold, and mutually they fixed the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air journey. Glenn Hammond Curtiss was the most gifted machinist of his day; he first became the fastest man alive when he perfected the street motorcycle, then switched his sight toward the skies to become the fastest man aloft. But between the Wrights and Curtiss bloomed a poisonous rivalry and a patent conflict so powerful which it designed aviation in its early on years and drove one of the three men to his grave. Birdmen reaches once a thrilling ride through flight's untamed early on years and a unexpected go through the battle that identified an era of American development. Lawrence Goldstone is the writer or co-author of 14 catalogs of fiction and nonfiction, lately LEFTY: An American Odyssey. His work has been profiled in The NY Times, The Toronto Legend, Salon, and Slate, among others. He lives on Long Island with his wife and girl.
