Book description
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. 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.
