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 women's 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.S. Senate. James Fenimore
Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in
Paris, Cooper writing and Morse painting what would be his
masterpiece. From something he saw in France, Morse would also
bring home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Writers Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Henry James
were all discovering Paris, marveling at the treasures in the
Louvre, or out with the Sunday throngs strolling the city's
boulevards and gardens. At last I have come into a dreamland, wrote
Harriet Beecher Stowe, seeking escape from the notoriety Uncle
Tom's Cabin had brought her. The genius of sculptor Augustus
Saint-Gaudens and painter George Healy would flourish in Paris,
inspired by the examples of brillant French masters, and by Paris
itself. For this special audio presentation, McCullough has chosen
a selection of portraits, excerpted in their entirety, that bring
us into the lives of these remarkable men and women. A sweeping,
fascinating story told with power and intimacy, The Greater Journey
is itself a masterpiece.
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