A landmark history of a culture, of a people and of a world by one of our most distinguished and electrifying historians
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings and The American Future. His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented forty films for BBC2 on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics and John Donne and won an Emmy for The Power of Art.
"An exuberant tour de force"
*Daily Mail*
"Schama at his best, a labour of love, as full of memorable
incident as a Bellow novel and wittier than a Woody Allen
movie"
*The Times*
"Schama has written a proud and personal story of his people, one
that will make a good starting point for those interested in one of
history’s most fascinating and tragic tales"
*Sunday Times*
"Inspiring… Schama tells it with panache, weaving facts and
anecdotes into a vivid history"
*Observer*
"Unforgettable…a delicious cacophony of conversations and clamorous
arguments echoing across history"
*Daily Telegraph*
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