The American Future

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<i>The American Future</i>traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of the world's most controversial superpower looks backwards and forwards to understand why now, more than ever, the fate of America, and by extension the rest of the world, is hanging in the balance.

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<p>Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include<i>Citizens,</i><i>Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes,</i><i>A History of Britain,</i><i>The Power of Art,</i><i>Rough Crossings</i>,<i>The American Future, The Face of Britain</i>and<i>The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492)</i>.</p><p>His art columns for the<i>New Yorker</i>won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the<i>Guardian</i>and the<i>Financial Times</i>where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented forty films for BBC2 on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics and John Donne.</p>

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