Paul Johnson, Author . Viking $24.95 (181p) ISBN 978-0-670-02105-5
In this enthusiastic yet first-rate biography, veteran British historian Johnson (Modern Times
) asserts that Winston Churchill (1874–1965) was the 20th century's most valuable figure: “No man did more to preserve freedom and...
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Paul Johnson, Harper, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-182591-0
British historian Johnson (Churchill) misses the mark with this odd collection of biographical snapshots of "humorists"—the term is debatable—throughout Western history. Noting that laughter was first recorded in words in chapter 18 of the book of...
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Paul Johnson. Viking, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-02303-5
In this brisk account of Socrates’ life, ideas, and era, written to be useful for contemporary readers, Johnson (Churchill) chronicles the rise and fall of Athens under Pericles and his successors, establishing both the context of Socrates’...
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Michael Korda, Author, Paul Johnson, Author, Christopher Hitchens, Author , read by Sam Tsoutsouvas. Harper Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-087875-7
Tsoutsouvas offers a fitting voice for this collection of minibiographies of American presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ulysses S. Grant. His narration is professorial without feeling remote, and his precise inflections and seasoned
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Paul Johnson, Author . HarperCollins $39.95 (792p) ISBN 978-0-06-053075-4
Having produced in a fairly short span equally weighty histories of the Jewish diaspora, the modern world and America, as well as a number of smaller books and a stream of articles, near-septuagenarian Johnson, historian, journalist, conservative...
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Paul Johnson, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (294p) ISBN 978-0-312-01054-6
Ex-'60s radical Casey is quietly rotting away in the Catskills, ruminating on his deteriorating relationship with Agnes, a hip family therapist and her yuppie entourage. Then he stumbles upon a headless, handless, footless, flayed and gutted corpse.
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Paul Johnson, Author . HarperCollins/Atlas $19.95 (126p) ISBN 978-0-06-075365-8
In this masterful addition to the Eminent Lives series, acclaimed historian Johnson (A History of the Jews
; Art: A New History
) concisely yet vividly portrays the life and legacy of our first president. Johnson traces Washington's life from...
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Paul Johnson, Author Harper Perennial $16 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-091657-2
Johnson here sets his sights on Marx, Sartre, Shelley, Tolstoy, Brecht, Ibsen and others. ``Written from a conservative standpoint, these pummeling profiles of illustrious intellectuals are caustic, skewed, thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging,'
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Paul Johnson, Author Harper Perennial $19.95 (1120p) ISBN 978-0-06-092282-5
This marvelously readable work from the author of Modern Times , a BOMC main selection in cloth, chronicles the formation of the modern world, illuminating the epoch of Andrew Jackson, Wordsworth, Goya and Beethoven. (June)
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Paul Johnson, Author Nefyn & Shaw $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-9637974-3-8
Longtime political activist Johnson ( Killing the Blues ) evokes the lost idealism of the 1960s and assembles a cast of believable, slightly offbeat characters to pull a caper that will wake up the Establishment. Wendell Jacobsen, known as Jake, has
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Paul Johnson, Author HarperCollins $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-017344-9
Historian Johnson (A History of Christianity; A History of the Jews; The Birth of the Modern World Society) switches to a more intimate scale as he tries to provoke readers into examining their beliefs, or lack thereof, in God. Johnson's allegiance...
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Paul Johnson, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24.95 (644p) ISBN 978-0-06-015698-5
Less a seminal contribution than a distillation of a wide range of sources, this history of the Jews focuses on their four-millennia interplay with, and adaption to, other, often hostile, civilizationsa ""world history seen from the viewpoint of a...
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Paul Johnson, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22.5 (385p) ISBN 978-0-06-016050-0
Written from a conservative standpoint, these pummeling profiles of illustrious intellectuals are caustic, skewed, thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging. The author of A History of the World skeptically weighs each pundit's moral and judgmental...
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Paul Johnson, Author HarperCollins Publishers $35 (1095p) ISBN 978-0-06-016574-1
In 1815, on the eve of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, reactionaryism seemed triumphant everywhere, but by 1830 a decisive shift toward democracy had occurred. In the intervening 15 years, contends Johnson ( Modern Times ), the matrix of the modern...
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Paul Johnson, Author Modern Library $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-64086-8
This slim volume is among the first in a new series, the Modern Library Chronicles, described by the publisher as ""authoritative, lively, and accessible."" Noted historian Johnson's (A History of the American People, etc.) book satisfies on the...
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Paul Johnson, Author Viking Books $19.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-670-03078-1
The career of a different kind of celebrity hound is examined in historian Paul Johnson's Napoleon. Johnson (A History of the American People) contends that Bonaparte sowed the seeds of the devastating warfare and totalitarian regimes of the 20th
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Paul Johnson. Viking, $25.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-670-01682-2
Accomplished historian and biographer Johnson (Churchill) produces an engaging, if bizarrely brief, survey of the life of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Johnson’s work covers all the major facets of Eisenhower’s career, beginning with his boyhood...
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Paul Johnson, Author , HarperCollins $25.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-06-114316-8
Veteran journalist and historian Johnson (Modern Times
; A History of the Jews
) offers 30 brief profiles of “heroes.” Unfortunately, he offers a vague, tautological definition: “anyone is a hero who has been widely, persistently,...
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Paul Johnson, Author Viking Books $24.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-670-02159-8
When one sets out to explicate the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, arguably the most important figure in human history, it is inevitable that the study will be affected by one's own beliefs and biases. Johnson, celebrated author and...
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Jim Powell, Author, James Powell, Author, Paul Johnson, Author Free Press $35 (592p) ISBN 978-0-684-85967-5
Through 65 pithy, vivid biographical profiles, Powell traces the struggle for freedom from oppression, equality before the law, peace, social justice, toleration of thought, speech and individuality. Along with familiar figures such as Erasmus,...
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Paul Johnson. Viking, $25.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-02571-8
Renowned historian Johnson (Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties) rehearses the already well-known facts of Darwin’s life and work, among them his descent from a distinguished lineage of working scientists; his wealth; his...
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Paul Henry Johnson. Outskirts, $16.95 paper (209p) ISBN 978-1-4327-9531-3
Corporate attorney Brent Michaels confronts the sinister and Satanic in Johnson's formulaic supernatural thriller. Michaels, a descendent of ancient prophets, is called upon by David Baumann—a friend of his late father—to locate the Scrolls of...
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Paul Johnson. Viking, $25.95 (162p) ISBN 978-0-670-02637-1
Historian Johnson (A History of the American People) has taken to writing succinct biographies of world-renowned figures like Darwin and Churchill that usually clock in under 200 pages, and this newest work, is no exception. Johnson packs a great...
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