cover image Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations

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)