Title: More Shulman "attack biography"
Product review: Seth Shulman deserves some credit for attempting to get overdue credit for Glen Curtiss's improvements to early forms of heavier-than-air invention. He is at the same time stingy in giving credit to Alexander Graham Bell's AEA organization, which provided immeasurable assitance to Curtiss. While the book is in places a good read, Shulman seems to have difficulty in judiciously using details, with the effect being his losing sight of the forest for the trees. In addition, when Shulman goes into "attack mode" (which he does in several of his books) he can be extraordinarily unfair to his subjects' rivals. Shulman is not as guilty in this book of the kind of misdirection, omission, and irresponsibility that he displayed in The Telephone Gambit, his attack on Bell, but readers should be very skeptical anytime that Shulman compares Curtiss and the Wright Brothers.
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