The Greater Journey

New York Times bestselling author David McCullough won two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. From 1830 to 1900, many gifted young Americans, ambitious to excel, spent time in Paris -- time which changed their lives and thus the course of American literature, medicine, art, architecture, music and dance. As David McCullough writes, "Not all pioneers went west. " This book is a powerful narrative of those who had the initiative, courage, and sense of adventure to engage in a new experience not just for their own improvement, but to benefit their country.