![]() ![]() Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history.Įlizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring-and until now, untold-story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 18, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. ![]()
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