The American Future: A History is the companion volume to Simon Schama's four-part BBC series, but readers familiar with the author's work will know better than to expect just a pictorial trot. This London-born, multicultural historian has spent half his life in the United States and qualifies easily as one of its most penetrating observers, even winning accolades as "the De Tocqueville for the 21st century." In this book, the former National Book Critics Circle winner looks at how America views itself in four essential areas: the projection of its power; race and immigration; religion; and the waning mystique of American land and resources. A seminal document.