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The Greater Journey
AuthorDavid McCullough
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
GenreNon-fiction
PublishedMay 24, 2011
Simon & Schuster
Publication placeUnited States
Pages576 pages
ISBN1-4165-7176-0 (hardcover)
Preceded by1776 
Followed byThe Wright Brothers 

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris is a 2011 non-fiction book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough. In a departure from McCullough's most recent works, Founding Fathers like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, who spent time in Paris, are not covered.[1] Instead, the book is about 19th-century Americans like James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel Morse, who migrated to Paris and went on to achieve importance in culture or innovation. Other subjects include Elihu Washburne, the American ambassador to France during the Franco-Prussian War, Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in the United States, Charles Sumner who studied at the Sorbonne and went on to become an American politician, and American artists who worked in Paris such as George Healy, Mary Cassatt, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens.[2]

References[edit]

  • ^ Maslin, Janet (2011-05-22). "The Parisian Experience of American Pioneers". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
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