The American Future

  1. The American Future
  2. by Simon Schama; read by Peter Marinker
  3. Find this on the Guardian bookshop

In this elegantly written history, Schama elucidates America's present and the "end of plenty" through an examination of her past. With the destruction of the Native Americans likened to 20th-century ethnic cleansing, this is in no way a whitewash. The tragic irony in Thomas Jefferson's vision of a peaceful nation is all too clear.

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