Simon Schama

Simon Schama reads from:
"Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills" (1914-1916)" by Winson Churchill.

Historian Simon Schama. His new historical novel, "Dead Certainties," examines the deaths of two revolutionary figures from various perspectives.

Historian and writer Simon Schama. His revisionist history of the French Revolution - Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution - has been one of the most talked-about and debated volumes of history in the last several years. Critics have lauded Schama for bringing vividly to life the characters that inspired the five-year popular uprising that changed the modern political order.