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The Greater Trip is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - report of the adventurous American artists, freelance writers, doctors, politicians, architects, yet others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. After risking the unsafe journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater journey in the City of Light. Most acquired never kept home, never experienced a new culture. None acquired any guarantee of success. They achieved a whole lot for themselves and their country profoundly transformed American history. As David McCullough writes, "Not absolutely all pioneers went western." Almost all of the Americans profiled here - including Elizabeth Blackwell, Adam Fenimore Cooper, Symbol Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Harriet Beecher Stowe - whatever their troubles learning People from france, their spells of homesickness, and their anguish in the uncooked cold winters by the Seine, put in lots of the happiest days and nights and nights of their lives in Paris. McCullough instructs this sweeping, exciting story with electric power and intimacy, having us in to the lives of amazing men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens's term, longed "to soar in to the blue". The Greater Trip is itself a masterpiece.
