Originally published in 1983 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, this bestselling history is now revised and updated and includes a new final chapter.
Paul Johnson Books
November 2, 1928 – January 12, 2023
Paul Johnson was a distinguished historian and journalist whose prolific writing offered profound insights into societal and cultural history. His works explored the intricate tapestry of human civilization, examining pivotal eras and influential figures with remarkable depth. Johnson possessed a distinctive narrative style, weaving together meticulous research with an engaging prose that brought the past vividly to life for contemporary readers. Through his extensive publications, he provided critical perspectives on the evolution of modern society, from its earliest foundations to the 21st century.
An examination of the way the matrix of the critically and subjected to examination.
Selections From The Liliane And David M. Stewart Collections: Design, 1935-1965
What Modern Was
- 424 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Book by
After Life
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Lakota America
- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
This account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hamalainen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then -- in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion -- as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations.
What is the truth about Britain's finances?Paul Johnson and the enormously respected Institute for Fiscal Studies aim to hold Government to account - without which politicians will get away with their half-truths, elisions and dubious claims.This is a forensic examination - by the man best placed to do so - of the 1 trillion it now costs to run the United Kingdom's economy. To follow the money. To provide an explanation, of where that money comes from and where it goes to, how that has changed and how it needs to change.Government decisions determine the welfare of the poor and the elderly, the state of the health service, the effectiveness of our children's education, and how prepared we are for the future: whether that is a pandemic or global warming. As a society, we are a reflection of what the government spends.Johnson looks at what happened following the financial crisis of 2008-09 and the austerity years that followed. He examines the way that the government tackled the economy during Covid - when the UK budget shot up to over a trillion for the first time - and he analyses prospects for our future as we grapple with looming recession and the cost of living crisis.
England, Scotland, and Wales together possess one of the largest and most impressive collections of castles anywhere in the world. Their names--Kenilworth, Edinburgh, Bodiam, Stirling, Tintagel--conjure images of romance, battles and intrigue. Trace each stage of the castles' development from Norman times through Plantagenet and Edwardian expansion, including their role in strengthening the coastline during the Tudor age, the appalling devastation suffered in the Civil War, and the gradual decay of the castle--and its renaissance.
The Plot of Shame
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
The author reveals how the cases surrounding those buried in Plot E are violent, disturbing and often brutal in their content. They are not war crimes, but crimes committed in a time of war.
A national bestseller, this brilliant 4000 year survey covers not only Jewish history but he impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world. By the author of Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Eighties.
History Of The Modern World
- 877 pages
- 31 hours of reading
