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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 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.”

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David McCullough has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams, and twice received the National Book Award, for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback. His other acclaimed books include The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, Brave Companions, 1776, The Greater Journey, The American Spirit, and The Wright Brothers. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. Visit DavidMcCullough.com.

Edward Herrmann's films include Nixon, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Annie, and The Aviator. On television's Gilmore Girls he starred as the patriarch, Richard Gilmore. He has also appeared on The Good Wife, Law & Order, 30 Rock, Grey's Anatomy, and Oz. He earned an Emmy Award for The Practice, and remains well-known for his Emmy-nominated portrayals of FDR in Eleanor and Franklin and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. On Broadway, he won a Tony Award for his performance in Mrs. Warren's Profession.

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Publisher : Simon & Schuster Audio; Abridged edition (May 5, 2015)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1442387815
ISBN-13 : 978-1442387812
Item Weight : 6.1 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.8 x 5.88 inches

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jim sullivan

There is so much to like about this book

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2018

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This book was a delightful and informative narrative of many prominent Americans who traveled to Paris from the early 1830's to the end of the 19th century. Who knew that before he invented the telegraph, Samuel Morse was an exceptional painter. His "Gallery of the Louvre"was a well celebrated painting. He also had a friendship with the writer James Fenimore Cooper and included him in the aforementioned painting. Young medical students including Oliver Wendell Holmes and Elizabeth Blackwell (first American female doctor) came to France to enhance their skills as France was at the cutting edge of medical knowledge during this period. Who was Elihu Washburne? You will find out about this remarkable American after reading The Greater Journey. Other notable individuals who are discussed in this book include artists John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassat, George Healy and the remarkable sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens. You will learn about the internal turmoil that continued in France after the Revolution of 1789 including the reign of Louis Napoleon and his major blunder of going to war with Germany. There is so much to like about this book. This is the seventh book written by Mr. McCullough that I have read and it may be the most enjoyable.

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Michael Sholders

Fascinating Stories of Famous Americans Developing Their Place in History

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2016

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A historical junket that chronicles a series of events and significant Americans who spent time in Paris to hone their cultural and/or artistic skills. It traverses through late the early years of eighteenth century through the early years of the twentieth century. In typical McCullough fashion, this book is well researched and full of information that surrounds interesting people. I learned a great deal about the American growth of diplomacy with France, the wars, the alliances, and the enmity between the countries. I also learned a great deal about Americans who studied and practiced medicine, painting, sculpture, music, and political diplomacy in Paris. This city is a modern center of culture, and it is fitting that much of the American culture has been largely influenced by France, and more particularly, Paris. As well done as the book is, I struggled through the myriad pages of detail, historical facts, stories, persons and famous events that were not connected in story form, but rather an encyclopedic fashion. I started and stopped this book at least 4 times while reading it in order to read something that was more pleasurable reading. I read largely for pleasure but have great interest in history and the perspectives that history brings to my personal core knowledge. This was great for increasing core knowledge, but dull for pleasure reading value.

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Jared S. Runck

Delightful Stories, Beautifully Told

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019

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I have a colleague who likes to say of her favorite authors that, if they wrote a book about paint drying, she'd be delighted to read it. Though perhaps exaggerated, I feel that just this sentiment applies here. I am, by training, a theologian and a biblical scholar. By avocation, I am a reader of history but usually of the mid-20th century (World Wars, Civil Rights, etc). Thus, a book on Americans in 19th-century Paris is anything but my area of expertise or interest. Reading about 19th-century Europe is about as close as I come to reading works of the "paint-drying" variety.
Yet, David McCullough has once again managed to captivate me with these interwoven stories of inventors, doctors, and artists and the deep entwinement that marks American and French history. The book is interesting, first of all, because the book centers on a place rather than a person (McCullough is perhaps first thought of by most as a biographer), so I was curious to see if and how he could "bring to life" a 19th-century city.
Of course, this is the David McCullough of "John Adams" fame, so there was never much in the way of doubt as to what he could actually accomplish. There is an unbelievable ease to his writing. Though his scholarship is immense (especially when you consider all the excerpts from personal letters and diaries), it never weighs the story down nor does it give the book the "clunky" feel so common to most academic works. Perhaps that is due to McCullough's virtually-inerrant sense for the "telling" anecdote that encapsulates the point or captures the spirit of what he is trying to convey. Here are stories of the formative years of many of America's "leading lights" of the 19th century: Samuel F.B. Morse, George Catlin, Mary Cassatt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Singer Sargent, among others…all told with ease and grace and fine sense of the entanglement that makes human life and society so rich and exciting.
If the book does anything, I believe it shows, first of all, the deep kinship that bonds the United States of America to the country of France. It also reminds me that, though world history is vast and complicated, for all intents and purposes, the modern world revolved around Paris for much of the 19th century…artistically, technologically, medically, politically. Perhaps our postmodern ethos has made us so intent on telling the "forgotten" stories of history (a moral duty, no doubt) that we've almost lost the ability to discern the "pivotal" stories that have shaped not just the contemporary moment but the trajectories of decades and even centuries to come. There are "centers" to world events (assuredly not all Western European or North American), and McCullough's thoughtful portrayal has me considering where such influence might be found today. That is the ultimate power of good history: to recall the past in such a way as to reshape our comprehension of the present. And that is precisely what David McCullough's work unfailingly does.

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jockbroker

Who Would Have Ever Connected USA France and Medicine

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2019

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Once again, the details that this author brings in his work makes you wonder how anyone could have discovered all of these things in his research. My discovery of how significant the French leaders were in the field of medicine in the early part of the 19th century has been a revelation. Their contribution to the arts was never in doubt but so many Americans traveled to France not just for the wine and the Folies Bergere but to spend years listening to lectures and attending surgeries to learn the art of medicine and hospice. Trying to appreciate the efforts it took to travel from the USA back to Europe was no easy task in and of itself, but to make that journey and spend time training for all types of careers in the arts, music, ballet, and of course medicine was a risky and time consuming endeavor. I highly recommend all of this author's work but I would reserve several other editions for the 5 star rating.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 27, 2020

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This is a beautifully written and interesting narrative, concerning those Americans who sailed or came by steamer ships from New York and other eastern seaboard ports and as far south as Louisiana to France. Some arrived at Le Havre, others at Calais and Boulogne, after which they faced an onward 24 hour journey to Paris by a diligence. It certainly raises the question - what drove these Americans to undertake such a potentially dangerous crossing of the Atlantic, not necessarily speaking any French and having, in most cases, limited financial resources? David McCullough's book spans the period 1830 to 1900, a period known as the Belle Époque, meaning the Beautiful Epoch. Throughout this period, Paris was the acknowledged hub from the standpoint of technical and artistic knowledge and accomplishment and it was this that drew Americans from the New back to the Old World. Whilst Paris was an exciting, perhaps romantic city, until 1853 it was nonetheless a Medieval cesspit. The narrative follows the fortunes of a number of talented American (and French) individuals, some of whom will be well known, others not but there are plenty of surprises as their respective life-stories unfold. Many of the people David McCullough introduces would experience the July Revolution, culminating in the overthrow of King Charles X, equally, some remained in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War and the Siege of Paris. Not that it was in question but this is a further example of David McCullough's skill at historical narrative. It is an enjoyable, informative book. A highly recommended read.

Wiz

An outstanding read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2020

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Simply one of the most enjoyable books I have read for a long time. I particularly loved how the author combined the stories of artists with the turbulent history of (mainly) nineteenth century Paris. But not only artists, medical students, inventors, showmen, diplomats, forward thinkers and thought changers, always with Paris as an active participant, as a concept, as a way of life and as a tangible force shaping our world.

I have to thank Amazon very much for recommending The Greater Journey as one of their daily suggestions. I was dubious about the subtitle “Americans in Paris“ but I took a chance, it was a reasonable price and I love most things Parisian. I even hesitated to start readIng the book, I have so many other books I “need“ to read. I thought I would just read a few pages and see how it was (this is me - not the world's authority - hesitating to read an author that I later discover is a double Pulitzer Prize winner - sorry).

I will tell you how it was for me, it was engrossing, enthralling and entirely wonderful.

Timba

The Greater Journey

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2020

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What is not to like? Most interesting book on the lives of some unknown and many more well known Americans, who came to Europe to improve their given work in the 1890s. Artists, writers, and doctors for the most part. They all were able to improve their lives by what they learnt and saw of the ''old" Continent, often returning to America and becoming more professional and important in their given jobs. Some remained in Europe for years. Plus a great deal of history of Paris during that century. It was the centre for culture but also upheavals and war as happens in every century. For anyone interested in History this book is a gold mine of information on every page.

Anonymous

Absolutely fascinating way to learn history obliquely

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2020

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We had this book in paperback & then bought it on Kindle so we would always be able to read it when the mood took us. It's fascinating. This latest purchase was actually a present for a friend (we'd been told that was possible so took the opportunity). We've enthused about this book to several people. It presents the history of Paris through the eyes of expat Americans over time. It's a very interesting way to present the topics covered.

R Helen

A breathtaking look at Paris in the 19th century

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 18, 2012

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I thought this book was beautiful. I also thought this book was inspiring. To read about so many Americans who picked up and sailed to France to enrich their lives, advance their learning, and soak up the knowledge, the culture, the atmosphere, and the beauty of the world's centre for arts, science, and medicine, was to be transported to another era and to experience Paris as it was in the 19th century. This book made me want to take that trip myself; to walk down the Paris streets, to experience her gardens, her museums, her light, her beauty, and her mystery. "The Greater Journey" is a sweeping history of Paris in the 19th century, yet it is also the story of many Americans who came there first to learn and eventually to give over in return. For them it was truly "the greater journey," but it is also for us too, a journey through history, through art, through medicine,and through the passion of the human soul. It is such a wonderful book and I highly recommend it.

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