15 best nonfiction books of 2011: CSMonitor picks

15 bests nonfiction titles of 2011, according to the Monitor's reviewers

6. "The Greater Journey," by David McCullough

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

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