A short YouTube book review by Brian Tracy of David McCullough’s The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. Tracy summarizes the book’s theme—how Paris influenced American writers and thinkers over roughly 200 years—praising McCullough’s authorship and noting the book’s bestseller/Pulitzer-author credentials.
If you think about your childhood and you think about your adult life today, you remember that you were greatly affected by where you grew up as a child. You know, the first five or ten years of your life. The old hometown. Well, David McCullough has written a book called the Greater Journey. Americans in Paris. And what this is. It talks about Americans going back and spending time in Paris for the last 200 years and the great influence that Paris, Parisian history, European history, the intellectuals, art, had on their orientation toward the world. You see, we didn't have any great writers 200 years ago, after independence. But over time, our writers who began to study in Paris and they studied French and English literature, they came back and they became better and better. So this is a remarkable book. I met David McCullough. I had dinner with him a couple of years ago right here in San Diego. He's quite a remarkable author. He's won Pulitzer Prizes for Truman for 1776, the book about the Revolutionary War and what happened afterwards. And he's written an absolutely beautiful book. It's a New York Times bestseller, and it's called the Greater Americans in Paris. And you will really enjoy it. And it opens your eyes to the foundation thinking that made America the country that it is today.
