Scribble, scribble, scribble
Subtitle: writings on politics, ice cream, Churchill, and my mother
By: Simon Schama
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780062009869
Subjects: Arts; Cooking; Travel; Political science; History
Description: Collects more than thirty previously published essays on a diverse range of topics, including food habits, art, politics, history, and travel.
Notes: Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-405).
Table of contents: title: Travelling; title: Sail away; title: The unloved American; title: Amsterdam; title: Washington DC; title: Brazil; title: Comedy meets catastrophe; title: Testing democracy; title: 9/11; title: The dead and the guilty; title: The civil war in the USA; title: Katrina and George Bush; title: The British election, 2005; title: Virtual annihilation; title: Talking and listening; title: TBM and John; title: Isaiah Berlin; title: J.H. Plumb; title: Rescuing Churchill; title: Churchill as orator; title: The fate of eloquence in the age of the Osbournes; title: Performing; title: Richard II; title: Henry IV, part II; title: Martin Scorcese; title: Charlotte Rampling; title: Clio at the multiplex; title: True confessions of a history boy; title: Picturing; title: The matter of the unripe nectarine; title: Dutch courage; title: Rubens; title: Turner and the drama of history; title: James Ensor at MoMa; title: Rembrandt's ghost; title: Anselm Kiefer (1); title: In Mesopotamia: Anselm Kiefer (2); title: John Virtue; title: Avedon: Power; title: Cooking and eating; title: Cool as ice; title: Sauce of controversy; title: Cheese soufflé; title: Simmer of love; title: My mother's kitchen; title: Mouthing off; title: Remembering; title: Omaha beach; title: Gothic language: Carlyle, Ruskin and the morality of exuberance; title: A History of Britain: a response; title: No walnuts, no enlightenment; title: Abolishing the slave trade in Britain and America; title: A league of its own; title: Red October.