Scribble Scribble Scribble - Writing on Politics Ice Cream Churchill and My Mother

Simon Schama

Sinossi

“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.

Disponibile da: 11/04/2012.

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