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The American Future
  • Published: 1 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099520399
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $49.99
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The American Future

A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama

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1 Sept 2009
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1 Dec 2010
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A timely and masterful history of the world's most controversial superpower, by one of the world's most popular and distinguished historians.

The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of the world's most controversial superpower looks backwards and forwards to understand why now, more than ever, the fate of America, and by extension the rest of the world, is hanging in the balance.
  • Published: 1 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099520399
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $49.99
Categories:

About the author

Simon Schama

Sir Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and contributing editor of The Financial Times. His twenty award-winning books include the two-volume A History of the Jews, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Landscape and Memory, the History of Britain trilogy, The Power of Art and Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations. His sixty documentary films for the BBC and PBS include the BAFTA- and Emmy-winning Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz.
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Praise for The American Future

Schama is a genius of storytelling

The Times

The American Future shares Kerouac's almost inebriated eloquence, the words tumbling delightfully across the page, the sentences as playfully ornate as the Charlie Parker saxophone solos that Kerouac so adored... Also an inspiring and illuminating work of history, a reflection on the essence of America with a bedrock of deep knowledge behind the bebop prose. A more inspiring evocation of the spirit of liberal America - past, present and future - does not exist

Niall Ferguson, Financial Times

This is the most exhilarating book that has been written about America for at least eight years...ebulliently combative...instantly engaging...weaving the immediate present with its earlier history... Schama has delivered a glittering tale of America's past

Spectator

The master storyteller takes on the greatest story of our time, America ... Essential reading

Tatler

A wonderfully thought-provoking book... Schama continually illuminates the broad sweep of events with reference to telling details...fascinating

Daily Express