Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
Simon Schama. Vintage Books USA, $18 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73613-4
In a virtuoso performance, Harvard historian Schama ( Citizens ) underscores the abyss between experiential knowledge of an event and historical interpretations of it. This was a BOMC and QPB alternate in cloth. Photos. (June)
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Reviewed on: 06/01/1992
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 333 pages - 978-0-679-40213-8