Scribble, scribble, scribble : writing on politics, ice cream, Churchill, and my mother /: writing on politics, ice cream, Churchill, and my mother. (©2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Simon Schama.
• Other Names: Schama, Simon
• Contents: Travelling -- Sail away -- The unloved American -- 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 Scorcese -- 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 -- No walnuts, no enlightenment -- Abolishing the slave trade in Britain and America -- A league of its own -- Red October.
• Publisher Details: New York : Ecco
• Publication Date: 2010
• Copyright Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 405 pages, [8] pages of plates), illustrations
• Subjects: 814/.6; History; Arts; Political science; Travel; Cooking; Arts; Cooking; Political science; Travel; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062079107; 0062079107; 9781409018650; 1409018652
• Related ISBNs: 9780062009869; 0062009869
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-405).; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.