Books by Simon Schama
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English
review 1: I thought, "I can't wait to see how it ends!" I should have waited. Volume 1 ends with the Inquisition burning, and the Crown expelling, Jews by the thousands. Schama writes with great brio and a distinctively conversational wit (though I just can't make myself as interested i...
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English
review 1: The American Future is a piece of popular history written on the eve of the 2008 presidential election, which Barack Obama would go on to win. The book makes no predictions whatsoever about the American future. Rather, it uses as a starting point Obama's campaign rhetoric which ...
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English
review 1: A curious title for what is a work of thematic history about America interspersed with passages of personal reminiscence, but Simon Schama’s book was written during the 2008 election, those days of surging hope when it seemed the US might reinvent itself instead of tightening har...
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English
review 1: Simon Schama is always a pleasure to read or listen to, largely for his command of the English language and inventive use of the adverb. Maybe he's a bit too good. As an amateur/aspiring writer myself, it's exhilarating to read good prose, but thoroughly demoralizing at the same...