The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1416571779 ISBN13: 9781416571773 Release Date: May 2012 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Length: 576 Pages Weight: 1.90 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0" The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America's master historian, David McCullough.Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring--and until now, untold--story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounter