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Schama's reverence for Rembrandt and art in general winds up being both a virtue and a vice. The book begins with an epigraph from Paul Valry: "We should apologize for daring to speak about painting." It is difficult to imagine a guide through this world who is more well...
Schama, a professor of history and Mellon professor of the social sciences at Harvard before leaving to teach at Columbia in 1993, has made a career out of smoothly blending history and art history. In his most recent book, _Landscape and Memory_ (1995), Schama sought to explain what nature and...
This book, while not of the same trans-historical interest as "Landscape and Memory," has the virtue of being as close to exhaustive about its subject as one could hope. There is little psychological interpretation that Schama leaves undone, and little consequential biographical detail that he leaves unmentioned. _Rembrandt's...
After almost a year of campaigning, voters will go to the polls over the next few months to choose the two men who will represent the Democratic and Republican parties in the November presidential election. Presidential primaries are an entrenched political institution in America--only a few states still hold...
Primaries were originally introduced to take power back from party leaders in state and local conventions and put it back in the hands of voters. But the primary system, as it currently works, has many problems of its own.