The greater journey : Americans in Paris
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The greater journey : Americans in Paris
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- Label
- The greater journey : Americans in Paris
- Title remainder
- Americans in Paris
- Statement of responsibility
- David McCullough
- Title variation
- Americans in Paris
- Subject
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- trueIntellectuals
- Biographies
- true19th century -- 1801 -- 1900
- trueArtists
- Americans -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
- trueElectronic books
- History
- France -- Paris
- Intellectuals -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
- trueUnited States -- Foreign relations -- France
- 1800 - 1899
- Paris (France) -- Biography
- trueAmericans in France
- Physicians -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
- Paris (France) -- Relations -- United States
- Artists -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
- United States
- Americans -- France | Paris -- Biography
- truePhysicians
- trueIntellectual life
- trueArts and Entertainment -- General
- United States -- Relations -- France | Paris
- trueAuthors, American
- trueHistory writing -- Europe | France
- Authors, American -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
- trueAmericans in Paris, France
- trueParis, France -- History -- 19th century
- trueFrance -- Relations -- United States
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- This is the inspiring and, until now, untold story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. None had any guarantee of success. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America; future abolitionist Charles Sumner; staunch friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse (who saw something in France that gave him the idea for the telegraph); pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk; medical student Oliver Wendell Holmes; writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Henry James; Harriet Beecher Stowe, seeking escape from the notoriety Uncle Tom's Cabin had brought her; sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent; and American ambassador Elihu Washburne, who bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris and even more atrocious nightmare of the Commune. His vivid account in his diary of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris (drawn on here for the first time) is one readers will never forget. Nearly all of these Americans, whatever their troubles, spent many of the happiest days and nights of their lives in Paris.--From publisher description
- McCullough mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2011.
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- EYD
- Dewey number
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- 920.009213/044361
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DC718.A44
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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