Stuck on a sofa for a week? Start a book! I like McCullough.

Listening to the #Giants-Indians game.Ready for opening day and fantasy baseball to start.

Enjoyed the book tremendously.Such interesting people and a different time.

Living vicariously through these people.

I so love this book. Thank you, David McCullough, for bringing this period so vividly to life!

Continuing my fascination of the era between 1850 and 1930. Just cracking this one open.

Just getting started.

Really interesting book, I love when nonfiction makes you want to keep reading.

Seems to be a worthy tomb

This is a beautiful piece of work. It is enlightening, entertaining and educational. It is easy to love McCullough - He writes so well that he can make history come alive and engage the reader in... more

This is a beautiful piece of work. It is enlightening, entertaining and educational. It is easy to love McCullough - He writes so well that he can make history come alive and engage the reader in ways they had not expected possible. This book highlights American experiences and accomplishments in Paris during the 1800s. It incorporates France's political history with human achievements (artistic, scientific and engineering) that were integral pieces of that century's progress. The art descriptions ran a bit long for my liking but as an overall work, it is astonishing how palitable McCullough made what has often been a fairly dry subject for me. Hats off to him - I need to read more of his books.

As usual, McCullough brings us another amazing study of history.

Will finish tonight!

Poor Parisians! the Prussians just laid seige to the beautiful city.