The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

by David McCullough

Book Overview

The 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416571760
• ISBN13: 9781416571766
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 558 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.6" x 9.6"

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