The American Future: A History; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings; The Power of Art; The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations); Landscape and Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; and the History of Britain trilogy. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel, including the Emmy-winning Power of Art, on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy.
Back in 1999 Schama tagged his top ten history books for the Guardian. One title on the list:
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard BailynRead about the other entries on the list.
A very unlikely book about a man in paradoxical torment. An incredible book about a loyalist, and the ultimate biography of a loser, which simultaneously puts you in his position and makes you incredibly glad you're not him. He's demanding and repulsive at the same time: it's an incredible history of an impossible man in an impossible situation.
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson is among Maya Jasanoff's five best books on anti-revolutionary British loyalists and Jay Winik's five best portraits of the era of America's founding.
--Marshal Zeringue
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