The greater journey : Americans in Paris
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
ISBN
9781416571766 (hbk.), 1416571760 (hbk.)
Appears on list
Status
Description
Loading Description...
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
---|---|---|
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Non-Fiction | 920 McCullough | On Shelf |
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
Subjects
LC Subjects
Americans -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
Artists -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
Authors, American -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
Intellectuals -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
Paris (France) -- Biography.
Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Paris (France) -- Relations -- United States.
Physicians -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Relations -- France -- Paris.
Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
Artists -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
Authors, American -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
Intellectuals -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
Paris (France) -- Biography.
Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Paris (France) -- Relations -- United States.
Physicians -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Relations -- France -- Paris.
More Details
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
558 pages, [48] pages of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9781416571766 (hbk.), 1416571760 (hbk.)
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-537) and index.
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.
Description
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.
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McCullough, D. G. (2011). The greater journey: Americans in Paris (1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.). Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McCullough, David G. 2011. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McCullough, David G. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris Simon & Schuster, 2011.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McCullough, David G. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed., Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
Staff View
Loading Staff View.