$15 · Truman, John Adams and the Wright Brothers - David McCullough

McCullough won the Pulitzer Prize for Truman, and then again for John Adams. One of the foremost American historians of our time he's won the National book Award twice. It was not my habit to read this type of books until by wife and I went to Panama and I read his book The Path Between the Seas. I was amazed at how well he could craft a story from mountains of facts. I was not disappointed in any of these either.