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Zusatztext "I hope Obama will have this book on his bedside table. A more inspiring evocation of the spirit of liberal America-past! present and future-does not exist." Informationen zum Autor Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His award-winning books include Scribble, Scribble, Scribble ; The American Future: A History ; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings ; The Power of Art ; The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age ; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution ; Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations) ; Landscape and Memory ; Rembrandt's Eyes ; and the History of Britain trilogy. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel, including the Emmy-winning Power of Art , on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy. Klappentext Nothing that has happened since the inauguration of Barack Obama has dispelled the sense that the election of 2008 was the kind of moment of truth in American politics and history that seldom comes along. Simon Schama, the acclaimed historian and award-winning critic, followed the campaign, but unlike other accounts, The American Future looks at that contemporary moment through the window of time. In four areas critical to the fate of the American republic—war; the place of religion in politics and culture; immigration; and the tenacious grip of expectations of permanent abundance—Schama looks back to see more clearly into the future. Full of lost insights and spellbinding tales, discovering men and women who have been forgotten in the big record, The American Future showcases Schama's unique gift of storytelling, ensuring these eloquent voices will be heard again as the nation moves forward into an uncertain moment in its history. Zusammenfassung “With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny….A book of beautiful writing, peppered with wisecracks, slashed with rapier thrusts.” — Philadelphia Inquirer A De Tocqueville for the 21 st century, Simon Schama, NBCC Award winning author of Rough Crossings offers an essential, historical, long view analysis of the American character in The American Future. Shama examines four themes—war, race and faith, immigration, and custodianship of the land—through the prism of the historic 2008 presidential election in a magnificent work that the Wall Street Journal calls a “celebration of American resiliency.” Niall Ferguson says, “I hope Obama will have this book on his bedside table.”...
