Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties

by Paul Johnson

Overview

The classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060935504
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/07/2001
Series:	Perennial Classics
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	880
Sales rank:	167,535
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.98(d)

About the Author

Paul Johnson is a historian whose work ranges over the millennia and the whole gamut of human activities. He regularly writes book reviews for several UK magazines and newspapers, such as the Literary Review and The Spectator, and he lectures around the world. He lives in London, England.

What People are Saying About This

Foreign Affairs

"Wide-ranging and quirky, this history of our times (since World War I) hits all the highlights and hot spots: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the 1980s...A letter-day Mencken, Johnson is witty, gritty, and compulsively readable."

Stephen Spender

"A work of intellect and imagination."

Peter Loewenberg

"Johnson's insights are often briliant and of value in their startling freshness."

David Gress

"A marvelously incisive and synthesizing account."

Edmund Fuller

"Frequently surprises, even startles us with new views ofd past events and fresh looks at the characters of the chief world movers and shakers, in politics, the military, economics, science, religion, and philosophy of six decades."

Robert A. Nisbet

"Truly a distinguished work of history...Modern Times unites historical and critical consciousness. It is far from being a simple chronicle, though a vast wealth of events and personages and historical changes fill it....We can take a great deal of intellectual pleasure in this book."