Scribble, Scribble, Scribble : Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother

Simon Schama

ISBN 10: 0099546655 / ISBN 13: 9780099546658

Published by Vintage Publishing Jul 2011, 2011

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Neuware - Passionate, provocative, entertaining and informative, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble ranges far and wide: from cookery and family to Barack Obama, from preaching and Shakespeare to Victorian sages, from Charlotte Rampling and Hurricane Katrina to 'The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of The Osbournes'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scribble, Scribble, Scribble : Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing Jul 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099546655
• ISBN 13: 9780099546658
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

Passionate, provocative, entertaining and informative, "Scribble, Scribble, Scribble" ranges far and wide: from cookery and family to Barack Obama, from preaching and Shakespeare to Victorian sages, from Charlotte Rampling and Hurricane Katrina to 'The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of The Osbournes'. Never predictable, always stimulating, "Scribble, Scribble, Scribble" allows us to view the world, in all its diversity, through the eyes of one of Britain's best-loved public intellectuals.

About the Author

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.