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, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492).
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 more than fifty films for the BBC on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics, and The Story of the Jews and is co-presenter of a new landmark series on the history of world art, Civilisations.
Schama has a masterly ability to conjure up character and vivify
conflict.
*Financial Times*
He remains a master storyteller, admirably and sceptically well
read in current revisionist histories, and a wonderful guide to a
new history of Britain.
*The Times*
A History of Britain, its text supplemented by wonderful
illustrations, affords the rare joy of witnessing a scholar at the
peak of his powers convincing the reader that he has a cracking
good tale to tell and that he is loving every minute of the
telling.
*Literary Review*
Popular history at its finest.
*Sunday Express*
Simon Schama's A History of Britain is far more than the book of
the TV series... The book is far richer and fuller, covering a huge
span so economically that there is room for plenty of arresting
detail... It is the sort of vivid history that keeps you awake.
*Daily Mail*
Schama has a masterly ability to conjure up character and vivify
conflict. -- Ben Rogers * Financial Times *
He remains a master storyteller, admirably and sceptically well
read in current revisionist histories, and a wonderful guide to a
new history of Britain. * The Times *
A History of Britain, its text supplemented by wonderful
illustrations, affords the rare joy of witnessing a scholar at the
peak of his powers convincing the reader that he has a cracking
good tale to tell and that he is loving every minute of the
telling. -- Roy Porter * Literary Review *
Popular history at its finest. * Sunday Express *
Simon Schama's A History of Britain is far more than the
book of the TV series... The book is far richer and fuller,
covering a huge span so economically that there is room for plenty
of arresting detail... It is the sort of vivid history that keeps
you awake. -- Peter Lewis * Daily Mail *
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