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Sept. 18: Alumni Book Club Discusses David McCullough's The Greater Journey
September 18, 2012
Date: Tuesday, September 18
Time: 5:30-7 p.m.
Location: MMC, Regina Peruggi Room (2nd Floor, Main Building)
Cost: Free (Refreshments and snacks will be served)
Contact: If you would like to RSVP please email sluchs@mmm.edu or call (212) 517-0458.
Join the Marymount Manhattan College Alumni Book Club for a discussion of David McCullough's The Greater Journey. The Greater Journey 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 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the U.S. Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. 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. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent, flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.
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