The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance. murder. Real grievances were fed into a great furnace stoked by the newly emancipated press - which was less ideological than viciously vulgar, less philosophical than pornographic - and by the creative truculence of street-corner Recumbent readers beware. Those who like to do their poring lying down will scarcely rush to take up this book. It is monumental. Once hefted, however, and well balanced on lap, knee or chest, ''Citizens'' will prove hard to put down. Nominated for BAFTA Huw Wheldon Award for Specialised Programme or Series (Arts, History, Religion and Science), for A History of Britain [53]

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Such was the symbolic power of the Bastille to gather to itself all the miseries for which ''despotism'' was now held accountable, that reality was enhanced by Gothic fantasies. . . . Ancient pieces of armor were declared to be fiendish Schama appeared as an on-screen expert in Michael Wood's 1989 PBS series Art of the Western World as a presenting art historian, commenting on paintings by Diego Velázquez, Rembrandt, and Johannes Vermeer. [14] Johnson, Paul (21 September 2013). "The Story of the Jews, by Simon Schama – review". The Spectator . Retrieved 7 October 2013. Gussow, Mel (5 June 1995). "Into Arcadia with Simon Schama". The New York Times . Retrieved 19 April 2013. Schama is Jewish. He is married to Virginia Papaioannou, a geneticist from California; they have two children, Chloe and Gabriel. [38] As of 2014, Schama resides in Briarcliff Manor, New York. [39] He is a Tottenham Hotspur supporter. [40] Politics [ edit ]Freedland, Jonathan (6 October 2017). "Simon Schama: finding the light in the darkness of the Jewish story – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 October 2017. This is my impression of this book: Schama and Edward Burke take a stroll through an apple orchard in the late spring, In 2010, Schama was a financial donor to Oona King's unsuccessful campaign to become Mayor of London. [41] Nor, Mr. Schama reminds us, would revolutionary transformations have taken place without the intervention of those whom they most affected. The mass abandonment of feudal privileges on Aug. 4, 1789, was accomplished by dukes and bishops.

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Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil. Saint-Just, who is one of Mr. Schama's favorite antiheroes, insisted that the Republic stood for the extermination of everything that opposed it. And absence of enthusiastic support was opposition enough. Honorary Fellows | Christs College Cambridge". www.christs.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020 . Retrieved 11 July 2020.Vendée was] the logical outcome of an ideology that progressively dehumanised its adversaries and that had become incapable of seeing any middle ground between total triumph and utter eclipse.'

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place among ordinary people to those social groups hitherto protected from its more discomforting aspects. From this place & this time forth commences a new era in world history & you can all say that you were present at its birthAnd in that, the book does have a really nice structure and does, in so many places, get into the humanity and the faces of the French Revolution, making me think about the actual people who were around for this. Sure, Marie Antoinette wasn't perfect, but did she really deserve to be called a whore everywhere she went? Did she deserve to be killed as she was? The strength of this book is in making me think about this decade of French history as more than simply "the firs were the principles of the revolutionaries, he reminds us that their power depended on intimidation: the spectacle of death. Violence was no aberration, no unexpected skid off the highway of revolution: it was the Revolution - its seek: murderers murdering murderers before being murdered in their turn, until the last days of July 1794 brought an end to the Terror, though not to continuing terrorism. Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories". The Guardian. London. 7 August 2014 . Retrieved 26 August 2014. skeletons, instruments of torture and men in iron masks. . . . The Bastille, then, was much more important in its ''afterlife'' than it ever had been as a working institution. . . . Transfigured from a nearly empty,