The Resource The greater journey : Americans in Paris, David McCullough
The greater journey : Americans in Paris, David McCullough
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- Summary
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- 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
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Extent
- 558 pages, [48] pages of plates
- Contents
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- Pt. 1. The way over ; Voilà Paris! ; Morse at the Louvre ; The medicals
- pt. 2. American sensations ; Change at hand ; A city transformed ; Bound to succeed
- pt. 3. Under siege ; Madness ; Paris again ; The Farragut ; Genius in abundance ; Au revoir, Paris!
- Isbn
- 9781416571766
- Label
- The greater journey : Americans in Paris
- Title
- The greater journey
- Title remainder
- Americans in Paris
- Statement of responsibility
- David McCullough
- Title variation
- Americans in Paris
- Subject
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- 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
- Americans -- France | Paris -- Biography
- Paris (France) -- Relations -- United States
- Physicians -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Relations -- France | Paris
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- 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
- 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
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McCullough, David G
- Dewey number
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- 920.009213/044361
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DC718.A44
- LC item number
- M39 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Americans
- Intellectuals
- Artists
- Authors, American
- Physicians
- Americans
- Paris (France)
- Paris (France)
- Paris (France)
- United States
- Label
- The greater journey : Americans in Paris, David McCullough
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-537) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Pt. 1. The way over ; Voilà Paris! ; Morse at the Louvre ; The medicals -- pt. 2. American sensations ; Change at hand ; A city transformed ; Bound to succeed -- pt. 3. Under siege ; Madness ; Paris again ; The Farragut ; Genius in abundance ; Au revoir, Paris!
- Control code
- 1281319
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Extent
- 558 pages, [48] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781416571766
- Lccn
- 2010053001
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 1281319
- (OCoLC)694395288
- Label
- The greater journey : Americans in Paris, David McCullough
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-537) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Pt. 1. The way over ; Voilà Paris! ; Morse at the Louvre ; The medicals -- pt. 2. American sensations ; Change at hand ; A city transformed ; Bound to succeed -- pt. 3. Under siege ; Madness ; Paris again ; The Farragut ; Genius in abundance ; Au revoir, Paris!
- Control code
- 1281319
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Extent
- 558 pages, [48] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781416571766
- Lccn
- 2010053001
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1281319
- (OCoLC)694395288
Subject
- 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
- Americans -- France | Paris -- Biography
- Paris (France) -- Relations -- United States
- Physicians -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Relations -- France | Paris
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
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