Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
Travelling
Sail Away
The Unloved American
Amsterdam
Washington DC
Brazil
Comedy Meets Catastrophe
Testing Democracy
9/11
The Dead and the Guilty
The Civil War in the USA
Katrina and George Bush
The British Election, 2005
Virtual Annihilation
Talking and Listening
TBM and John
Isaiah Berlin
J. H. Plumb
Rescuing Churchill
Churchill as Orator
The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of The Osbournes
Performing
Richard II
Henry IV, Part II
Martin Scorsese
Charlotte Rampling
Clio at the Multiplex
True Confessions of a History Boy
Photographic Insert
Picturing
The Matter of the Unripe Nectarine
Dutch Courage
Rubens
Turner and the Drama of History
James Ensor at MoMA
Rembrandt’s Ghost
Anselm Kiefer (1)
In Mesopotamia: Anselm Kiefer (2)
John Virtue
Avedon: Power
Cooking and Eating
Cool as Ice
Sauce of Controversy
Cheese Soufflé
Simmer of Love
My Mother’s Kitchen
Mouthing Off
Remembering
Omaha Beach
Gothic Language: Carlyle, Ruskin and the Morality of Exuberance
A History of Britain: A Response
The Monte Lupo Story
No Walnuts, No Enlightenment
Abolishing the Slave Trade in Britain and America
A League of Its Own
Red October
Sources
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
About the Author
By the Same Author
Copyright
About the Publisher