The American Future: A History
Professor Simon Schama CBE
Simon Schama presents The American Future: A History starting on 大象传媒 Two this autumn.
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Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York and, since 1990, the writer and presenter of more than 30 documentaries on art and history for the 大象传媒.
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Among these are the award-winning 15-part A History Of Britain, Rough Crossings and the Emmy-winning eight-part Power Of Art first broadcast in 2006.
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Other programmes include Murder At Harvard based on his novella Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculation, a five-part series based on Landscape and Memory, and a film on Tolstoy's War And Peace.
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Simon was born in London in 1945. He taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard Universities before going to Columbia in 1993.
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His 14 books, translated into 16 languages from China to Brazil, include: The Embarrassment Of Riches, An Interpretation Of Dutch Culture In The Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle Of The French Revolution; Landscape And Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; the History Of Britain trilogy; Power Of Art; and Rough Crossings, Britain, The Slaves And The American Revolution - the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Prize for non-fiction in the United States.
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His art criticism for The New Yorker won the National magazine Award in 1996; he has written essays about the work of Christo, Cy Twombly, Anselm Kiefer, and Jenny Saville.
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Simon has written food and cooking essays for Vogue and he writes regularly for The Guardian on American politics; music and art.
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He has also written a book to accompany The American Future: A History, to be published by The Bodley Head on 2 October 2008.
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