Scribble, Scribble, Scribble - Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill
and My Mother
Book description
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.
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at
Columbia University in New York. His books have been translated into 15
languages and give an idea of his range:
Citizens: a Chronicle of the
French Revolution, Landscape and Memory
,
Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings
and, most recently,
The American Future: A History.
His art columns for the New Yorker won the national magazine Award for
criticsim and journalism and his journalism has appeared regularly in
the Guardian and 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 and won an Emmy for
The
Power of Art. Simon Schama
was awarded a CBE in 2001.
