
The Greater Journey
Americans in Paris, 1830-1900
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Narrated by:
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Edward Herrmann
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By:
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David McCullough
The 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.
After risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater journey in the City of Light. 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."
Nearly all of the Americans profiled here - including Elizabeth Blackwell, James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Harriet Beecher Stowe - whatever their troubles learning French, their spells of homesickness, and their suffering in the raw cold winters by the Seine, spent many of the happiest days and nights of their lives in Paris. McCullough tells this sweeping, fascinating story with power and intimacy, bringing us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens's phrase, longed "to soar into the blue". The Greater Journey is itself a masterpiece.
©2011 David McCullough (P)2011 Simon & SchusterListeners also enjoyed...




















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Would you try another book from David McCullough and/or Edward Herrmann?
no.What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
don't know, didn't finish it.Have you listened to any of Edward Herrmann’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I haven't listened to others and probably won't I had expected more interesting people and more intrigue, relationships or plot. Seemed like a book of short stories of not so interesting people.Do you think The Greater Journey needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
I'd expected a book about the great artists who gathered in a Parisian café and to hear their conversations, see their lives and relationships. This read like a history book.I didn't finish it.
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Thrilling tales of young Americans in Paris
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How years in Paris stretched influential Americans
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Terrific book, terrible abridgement
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Another good McCullough book
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Would you try another book from David McCullough and/or Edward Herrmann?
By the author, yes we will.Would you be willing to try another one of Edward Herrmann’s performances?
Never. My husband and I tried to listen on a car trip but had to stop for fear of being put to sleep while driving. Tried speeding up to 1.25 - still no good - even to 1.5 speed, then gave up and am returning the audible book.You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
We'll be reading it ourselves, as the narration was so bad that even speeding it up didn't make listening bearable.Any additional comments?
Neither of us can understand why, with so many talented narrators available, a good book was ruined by a truly bad narrator choice. I'm returning it as we couldn't make it past the first 15 minutes. Such a disappointment.Narrator made listening painful
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