Was for school. Not my cup of tea.

This was a great book - best writing is from Edith Wharton.

I love Gopnik's introduction and enjoyed the bulk of these excerpts. This is a book to own, however, not to check out from the library as I did, so you can flip through it over time. Read one after the other, it felt a bit repetitive.

This was such a great book. It's a compilation of stories, essays, diary entries, book excerpts and even a little poetry from famous and not so famous Americans who lived or traveled through one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I especially loved some of the accounts from Benjamin Franklin. And those excesses of the roaring twenties are seriously Sodom and Gomorrah. The World War II pieces were riviting! A wonderful way of seeing Paris through the eyes of many a different personality.