Book #122: The Greater Journey by David McCullough

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The Greater Journey by David McCullough

• Hardback
• Pages:  576
• Original Published Date:  2011
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• My Rating:  D

Product Description: At first glance, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris might seem to be foreign territory for David McCullough, whose other books have mostly remained in the Western Hemisphere. But The Greater Journey is still a quintessentially American history. Between 1830 and 1900, hundreds of Americans--many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, and Harriet Beecher Stowe--migrated to Paris. McCullough shows first how the City of Light affected each of them in turn, and how they helped shape American art, medicine, writing, science, and politics in profound ways when they came back to the United States. McCullough's histories have always managed to combine meticulous research with sheer enthusiasm for his subjects, and it's hard not to come away with a sense that you've learned something new and important about whatever he's tackled. The Greater Journey is, like each of McCullough's previous histories, a dazzling and kaleidoscopic foray into American history by one of its greatest living chroniclers.

My Review:  The first second of this book, I liked rather well.  I didn't love it, but it was interesting.  But once we got to the medical stuff, I lost interest quickly.  Nonfic has never been my favorite, but I give it a shot from time to time.  The truth, to me, is that nonfic is usually so incredibly dry that I have a hard time making it through.  This one is better than most, but I was still bored after a while.  Millions of people LOVE McCullough's books.  I'm just not one of them.

Next Up:  Visions in Death  by J. D. Robb


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