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Author:

McCullough, David G.

Title:

The greater journey : Americans in Paris / David McCullough.

Edition:

1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2012, ©2011

Description:

558 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Subject:

Americans--Paris--Paris--History--19th century.
Intellectuals--Paris--Paris--History--19th century.
Artists--Paris--Paris--History--19th century.
Physicians--Paris--Paris--History--19th century.
Paris (France)--Intellectual life--19th century.
Authors, American--Paris--Paris--History--19th century.
Americans--Paris--Paris--Biography.
Paris (France)--Biography.
Paris (France)--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Paris.--Paris.
Americans.
Artists.
Authors, American.
Intellectual life.
Intellectuals.
Physicians.
International relations.
France--Paris.
United States.
1800-1899
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-537) and index.

Contents:

Part I. The way over -- Voila Paris! -- Morse at the Louvre -- The medicals -- Part II. American sensations -- Change at hand -- A city transformed -- Bound to succeed -- Part III. Under siege -- Madness -- Paris again -- The Farragut -- Genius in abundance -- Au revoir, Paris!

Summary:

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 encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F.B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever--sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent--flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens' phrase, longed "to soar into the blue."

ISBN:

9781416571773
1416571779

OCLC:

(OCoLC)793755315

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)