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2015 selection · Nonfiction
The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, eye-opening reads, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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