The Greater Journey. Americans in Paris.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight hardcover copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. 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. McCullough explores the effect Paris had on authors like Harriett Beecher Stowe, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry James and Ralph Waldo Emerson and American painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargeant. Other soon-to-be imfluencial Americans include abolitionist Charles Sumner, Elizabeth Blackwell the first female doctor in America, and Samuel Morse who would later give us the telegraph. Item #28964
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