{"product_id":"9780394222684","title":"Dead Certainties","description":"Like his \u003cb\u003eThe Embarrassment of Riches\u003c\/b\u003e and the bestselling \u003cb\u003eCitizens\u003c\/b\u003e, Simon Schama's latest book is both history and literature of immense stylishness and ambition. But \u003cb\u003eDead Certainties\u003c\/b\u003e goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. In order to do so, Schama reconstructs -- and at times reinvents -- two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second, in 1849, that of George Parkman, an eccentric Boston brahmin whose murder by an impecunious Harvard professor in 1849 was a grisly reproach to the moral sanctity of his society. Out of these stories -- with all of their bizarre coincidences and contradictions -- Schama creates a dazzling and supremely vital work of historical imagination.","brand":"Simon Schama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":57034043293856,"sku":"9780394222684","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a510c19e-0935-457a-be07-1bd457116d6d.jpg?v=1779221539","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780394222684","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}