On screen and in print, Paris is much in vogue these days. Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s ode to the City of Light in the 1920s, is an Oscar nominee for Best Picture, and David McCullough’s The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris spent months on bestseller lists. If we’re lucky, McCullough’s hefty history spanning the 1830s through the 1890s will become a television m (...)
February 12, 2012
Books
French Lessons
The Greater JourneyAmericans in ParisDavid McCullough Simon & Schuster, $37.50, 558 pp.
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