| Description |
xxivi, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 2010. |
| Summary |
Collects more than thirty previously published essays on a diverse range of topics, including food habits, art, politics, history, and travel. |
| Contents |
Travelling. Sail away -- The unloved Americans -- 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 -- 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [403]-405). |
| Subject |
History.
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Arts.
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Political science.
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Travel.
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Cooking.
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| ISBN |
9780062009869: $27.99 |
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0062009869: $27.99 |
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