05728cam a2200421 4500 1261907822 TxAuBib 110103s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010053001 9781416571766 (hbk.) 1416571760 (hbk.) 9781416576891 (ebk.) 1416576894 (ebk.) (OCoLC)4849 DLC eng DLC IG# BTCTA YDXCP UPZ ABG MLY HQC ORX BUR BWX VP@ LF3 IXA CTB CDX LMR S3O NSB TxAuBib McCullough, David G. The greater journey : Americans in Paris / David McCullough. Americans in Paris. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011. 558 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-537) and index. In 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. 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. In 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Physicians France Paris History 19th century. Paris (France) Biography. Paris (France) Intellectual life 19th century. Paris (France) Relations United States. United States Relations France Paris.