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writings on politics, ice cream, Churchill, and my mother

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An edition of Scribble, scribble, scribble (2010)

Scribble, scribble, scribble

writings on politics, ice cream, Churchill, and my mother

1st U.S. ed.
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Collects more than thirty previously published essays on a diverse range of topics, including food habits, art, politics, history, and travel.

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Publisher
Ecco
Language
English
Pages
405

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Table of Contents

Travelling
Sail away
The unloved American
Amsterdam
Washington DC
Brazil
Comedy meets catastrophe
Testing democracy
9/11
The dead and the guilty
The civil war in the USA
Katrina and George Bush
The British election, 2005
Virtual annihilation
Talking and listening
TBM and John
Isaiah Berlin
J.H. Plumb
Rescuing Churchill
Churchill as orator
The fate of eloquence in the age of the Osbournes
Performing
Richard II
Henry IV, part II
Martin Scorcese
Charlotte Rampling
Clio at the multiplex
True confessions of a history boy
Picturing
The matter of the unripe nectarine
Dutch courage
Rubens
Turner and the drama of history
James Ensor at MoMa
Rembrandt's ghost
Anselm Kiefer (1)
In Mesopotamia: Anselm Kiefer (2)
John Virtue
Avedon: Power
Cooking and eating
Cool as ice
Sauce of controversy
Cheese soufflé
Simmer of love
My mother's kitchen
Mouthing off
Remembering
Omaha beach
Gothic language: Carlyle, Ruskin and the morality of exuberance
A History of Britain: a response
No walnuts, no enlightenment
Abolishing the slave trade in Britain and America
A league of its own
Red October.

Edition Notes

Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-405).

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
D7 .S275 2010b, D7.S275 2010b, D7 .S275 2010, PS3619.C32545 S37 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvi, 405 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
405

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25383132M
Internet Archive
scribblescribble00simo
ISBN 10
0062009869
ISBN 13
9780062009869
LCCN
2011282724
OCLC/WorldCat
641532409
Goodreads
8784647

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