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Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations

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Like his The Embarrassment of Riches and the bestselling Citizens, Simon Schama’s contemporary book is both history and literature of immense stylishness and ambition. But Dead Certainties goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. So as to take action, Schama reconstructs — and from time to time reinvents — two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe on the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second one, in 1849, that of George Parkman, an eccentric Boston brahmin whose murder by an impecunious Harvard professor in 1849 used to be a grisly reproach to the moral sanctity of his society. Out of these stories — with all in their peculiar coincidences and contradictions — Schama creates a dazzling and supremely important work of historical imagination.

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