Scribble, Scribble, Scribble by Simon Schama -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents Introduction Travelling

Sail Away: Six Days to New York on the Queen Mary 2 The Unloved American: Two Centuries of Alienating Europe Amsterdam Washington DC Brazil Comedy Meets Catastrophe: On the Korean DMZ

Testing Democracy

9/11 The Dead and the Guilty: 9/11 a year on The Civil War in the USA Katrina and George Bush The British Election, 2005 Virtual Annihilation: Anti-Semitism on the Web

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: Good-Fella Charlotte Rampling Clio at the Multiplex True Confessions of a History Boy

Photographic Insert Picturing

The Matter of the Unripe Nectarine: High Ground/Low Ground and Ruskin’s Prejudices 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: The Epic of Paint 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: Sound and Fury or Deafening Silence?

A League of Its Own

Red October

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