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Author Reading | Simon Schama reads from his book, The American Future

Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 7:00 pm

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Past performance may not guarantee future returns, but it's the best we have to go on, contends this lively meditation on American history.

Looking back from the tumultuous 2008 election campaign, historian Schama (NBCC-award winner for Rough Crossings) ponders four themes in American history as they played out in the lives of historical figures:
-the tension between militarism and liberty in the careers of Civil War general Montgomery Meigs and his family;
- the progressive influence of evangelical Protestantism on abolitionist and civil rights crusaders;
- America's conflicted attitudes toward immigrants as seen through the adventures of 18th-century French émigré J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur;
- and Americans' profligate exploitation of the land and water in an elegy for the Cherokee tribe.

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