Simon Schama Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Simon Schama is a historian, author and art critic. The past is never dead. It's not even past (Faulkner) . Historian, writer, art critic, cook, BBC presenter but not necessarily in that order
Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
Terry EagletonSimon SchamaCritical Revolutionaries by Terry Eagleton review – five critics who changed the way we read https://t.co/q3vjNprOhY wonderful review and as someone who had to do the Richards tests at school set by a brilliant teacher- disciple of New Crit I cant wait to read the book
Paperback, 2023
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Richard HofstadterSimon Schama@joncoopertweets populism presupposes a war on knowledge. the great Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life gives a primer. The superiority of gut feeling and personal revelation over objective fact and learning has a long pedigree and is now politically weaponised.
Paperback, 1966
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The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe
E. M. RoseSimon Schama@immrincognito @Lokster71 @holland_tom The definitive history (and I do mean that) is Emily Rose's wonderful The Murder of William of Norwich. Essential reading for anyone wanting to sound off on the tragic subject.
Paperback, 2017
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Ulysses
J. JoyceSimon Schama@theonlypeterkay unintentional but yes serendipitous. Must be under influence of Joyce's Ulysses coming up for its 100th birthday
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan SontagSimon SchamaAm re-reading Susan Sontag's perennially profound On Regarding the Pain of Others with re-awakened dismay in this time of atrocities at what humans can perpetrate on other humans
Paperback, 2004
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God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
Jonathan D. SpenceSimon Schamayes it's an extraordinary history - wonderful book by the late brilliant Jonathan Spence, one of the greatest historians of my generation - " God's Chinese Son" https://t.co/1XXz8xMN8B
Paperback, 1996
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The Future of Nostalgia
Svetlana BoymSimon SchamaIn the midst of this hellish carnage have been thinking again of the prescience of my deeply missed brilliant friend Svetlana Boym's The Future of Nostalgia (2002!) who warned of the perils of trying to restore a broken, imagined past.
Paperback, 2002
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The Letters of Shirley Jackson
Shirley JacksonSimon SchamaRT @newrepublic: Read all about Shirley Jackson's letters in @Jo_Livingstone's review of "The Letters of Shirley Jackson" here: https://t.c…
Paperback, 2022
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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Dara HornSimon Schama@Baddiel @GMB @DaraHorn Hard agree about Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews. Essential reading; wonderful chapter on Jews of Harbin, Manchuria where I had relatives. and on North African communities including the horrific 1945 massacre in Libya
Paperback, 2022
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Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837
Linda ColleySimon Schama@Coach_Tim_H try both Linda Colley's Britons and John Brewer's Pleasures of the Imagination on culture.
Paperback, 2009
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