Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother

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Harper Collins, Apr 12, 2011 - Literary Collections - 448 pages

“Schama is a masterful stylist and storyteller.”
—Boston Globe

“A writer of gorgeous prose.”
—Washington Post

The ever erudite, always delightfully curious Simon Schama returns with Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, a wonderful compendium of thirty provocative, witty, enlightening, and stimulating essays previously published but collected in a single volume for the first time. One of our most distinguished historians and commentators, Schama, the acclaimed author of The American Future: A History, explores an amazing diversity of topics—from the political to the personal, from the earth-shaking to the mundane, from ice cream to Churchill to Hurricane Katrina and everything in-between. In Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, Simon Schama opens up his—and our—wide world to us.

 

Contents

Introduction
Sail Away
The Unloved American
Amsterdam
Washington DC
Brazil
911
The Civil War in the
Richard II
Photographic Insert
The Matter of the Unripe Nectarine
Dutch Courage
Turner and the Drama of History
James Ensor at MoMA
Anselm Kiefer
John Virtue

Katrina and George Bush
The British Election 2005
Virtual Annihilation
TBM and John
Isaiah Berlin
J H Plumb
Rescuing Churchill
Churchill as Orator
The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of The Osbournes
Power
Cool as
Sauce of Controversy
Cheese Soufflé
Simmer of Love
My Mothers Kitchen
Omaha Beach
Copyright

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Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His award-winning books include Scribble, Scribble, Scribble; The American Future: A History; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings; The Power of Art; The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations); Landscape and Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; and the History of Britain trilogy. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel, including the Emmy-winning Power of Art, on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy.

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