Morse, worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Cooper writing and Morse painting what would be his masterpiece. Two staunch friends, James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. There he saw black students with the same ambition he had, and when he returned home, he would become the most powerful, unyielding voice for abolition in the U.S. Another was Charles Sumner, who enrolled at the Sorbonne because of a burning desire to know more about everything. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history.Īs David McCullough writes, “Not all pioneers went west.” Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. 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 18, ambitious to excel in their work.Īfter risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater journey in the City of Light.
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