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100 1 $aMcCullough, David G.$0(NOBLE)39985
245 14 $aThe greater journey :$bAmericans in Paris /$cDavid McCullough.
246 30 $aAmericans in Paris
250 $a1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$cc2011.
300 $a558 p., [48] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.), maps, ports. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 461-537) and index.
505 0 $aThe way over -- Voilà Paris! -- Morse at the Louvre -- The medicals -- American sensations -- Change at hand -- A city transformed -- Bound to succeed -- Under siege -- Madness -- Paris again -- The Farragut -- Genius in abundance -- Au revoir, Paris!
520 $aIn this book the author tells the story of the American artists and scientists who studied in Paris, and changed America through what they learned there. He 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. 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. These Americans include 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 the even more atrocious nightmare of the Commune. It also contains the vivid account in Washburne's diary of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris during the seige. Nearly all of these Americans, whatever their troubles, spent many of the happiest days and nights of their lives in Paris. -- From publisher description.
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