Author: Simon Schama

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In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.

- Simon Schama

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

- Simon Schama

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

- Simon Schama

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

- Simon Schama

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

- Simon Schama

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