Engaging material meets great writer in The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (Simon & Schuster, 558 pp.), popular historian David McCullough鈥檚 examination of 19th-century America鈥檚 romance with Paris 鈥 and how it helped to change the course of US history. Monitor reviewer Michael Taube called this book 鈥渁 scintillating account of young Americans, driven by wanderlust, setting out in search of greener Parisian pastures.鈥 (CSMonitor.com, 5/25/11)