Wow! I have his book "A History of the American People" which is a very popular and well written book. I must admit... his backing of Bush is surprising to me. Wow.
Great author, his "A History of the Jews" is very well written as well.
His "History of the American People" is a great book, written by a superb Brit historian, he calls 'em as he sees 'em.
I'm not surprised at all Paul Johnson backs Bush, he sees the great arc of history. Freepers, read this guy's books!
He has a recent one about the "modern art" scam, as a classicly trained artist, it is genius writing from a historian. He got a complete shunnning from the fine arts intelligensia on that one.
Few historians are brave enough, like Johnson, to praise Franco and what he averted. Johnson does. Few can give an clear insight into much of europeon socialism, Johnson can.
Much of academia treats him as a fringe nut case. They belittle him except when a work like Birth of the Modern is impossible to ignore because of its unique insight.
Get his Modern Times for a general history of the 20th Century, and Intellectuals, which is a humourous deflation of such inflated individuals as Tolstoy, Marx and Chomsky, the men who would be dictators of us lesser souls.
Prof. Johnson is a conservative and a practicing Christian (RC), and he holds fast to the idea that the West has a lot of good in it. No surprize to see him choose good over evil in this election.
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Try "Modern Times," a great book. You won't be surprised. He's been a staunch defender of Thatcher and Reagan.