The Greater Journey : Americans in Paris
By David McCulloughThe Greater Journey focuses on the period between 1830 and 1900, when hundreds of Americans--many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, John Singer Sargent and Harriet Beecher Stowe--migrated to Paris. McCullough shows first how the City of Light affected each of them in turn, and how they later moved back to America to help shape American art, medicine, writing, science, and politics in profound ways.The Greater Journey is filled with wonderful descriptions of the old Paris before it was re-made by Haussmann's grand boulevards, and of the city's great places, especially the Louvre, the Tuileries, and Notre Dame, which never failed to inspire visitors and expatriates.
Book details
- Hardcover
- 576 pages
- English
- 1416571760
- 9781416571766
About David McCullough
david mccullough (1933–2022) twice received the pulitzer prize, for truman and john adams, and twice received the national book award, for the path b Read More about David McCullough
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