The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

David McCullough
Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition
May 2011
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A Special Audio Presentation of Unabridged Selections Personally Chosen by David McCulloughThe Greater Journey is the enthralling, 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. As David McCullough writes, Not all pioneers went west. Writer Emma Willard, who founded the first womens college in America, was one of the intrepid bunch.Another was Charles Sumner, who enrolled at the Sorbonne where he saw black students with the same ambition he had, and when he returned home, he would become the most powerful, unyielding voice for abolition in the U.
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