The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
by James Tobin
Recommended by Paul Graham
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, History, and Nonfiction.
From the Kansas City Star, "A wonderful story, wonderfully told, a history that delivers all the suspense and heartache of a novel, and is as difficult to put down"...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, History, and Nonfiction.
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Paul Graham
Co-founder of Y Combinator; essayist
“James Tobin's _To Conquer the Air_ is the most exciting book I've come across in the past several months.”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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