'Unforgettable...a delicious cacophony of conversations and
clamorous arguments echoing across history'
Daily Telegraph
The landmark history of a people, culture and a world.
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 forty films for BBC2 on subjects as
diverse as Tolstoy, American politics and John Donne.
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*
A spirited, immensely enjoyable and wide-ranging account…
[expresses] both the triumphs and the tragedies with irrepressible
enthusiasm and his customary eloquence
*Financial Times*
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