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May. 27th, 2009 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katsmeatI want onto campus this evening to hear Simon Schama. As per u. when somebody notable comes to the UEA, he was pumping his latest book. But he was at least interesting and entertaining about doing it. In fact, the way he rambled on about anything that occurred to him, digressed frequently and tortuously, and and never bothered to mention the book except in passing, must've left the publisher's accompanying publicity person quite dispairing
I only knew him as an art historian and the person who did the 'History of Britain' TV series, so it was slightly surprising to see his focus was American history and American contemporary politics. Brief precis - he thinks the new era of limited resources will bring about great upheavel, but Americans happen to be good at dealing with, adapting to and profiting from that sort of thing. He also seems to think Obama is a fortuitous example of the cliché, "cometh the hour; cometh the man."
I only knew him as an art historian and the person who did the 'History of Britain' TV series, so it was slightly surprising to see his focus was American history and American contemporary politics. Brief precis - he thinks the new era of limited resources will bring about great upheavel, but Americans happen to be good at dealing with, adapting to and profiting from that sort of thing. He also seems to think Obama is a fortuitous example of the cliché, "cometh the hour; cometh the man."
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Date: 2009-05-28 12:22 am (UTC)