Paul Johnson

This fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history offers a full-scale, if controversial, analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading....

This historical magnum opus covers 4,000 years of the extraordinary history of the Jews as a people, a culture, and a nation....

In Socrates: A Man for Our Times, Johnson draws from little-known resources to construct a fascinating account of one of history’s greatest thinkers....

Few figures have had such an influence on history as Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings have inspired discussion, arguments, even war.....

Paul Johnson's book is a refreshing return to a concept whose time has come once again: the Great Man theory of biography....

Ireland is inarguably a beautiful, enchanted place. But its history is more turbulent, fascinating, and terrible than any other....

Charles Darwin is arguably the most influential scientist of all time. His Origin of Species forever changed our concept of the world’s creation...

Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart's gift and skill with instruments was also remarkable as he mastered all of them except the harp....

In Churchill, Johnson applies a wide lens and an unconventional approach to illuminate the various phases of Churchill's career.....

Una historia de cuatro mil años - de Abraham a la consolidación del Estado de Israel - en la que se ha forjado una cultura que ha ejercido una influencia innegable en la formación del mundo moderno....

In this enlightening and entertaining work, Johnson presents heroism through examples in history....

Paul Johnson, the most celebrated popular historian of our time, takes a scalpel to Stalin, whom he considers "one of the outstanding monsters of history."....

At the breakout of his music career, Sal is bought into the fold of the hottest hip-hop label in the country. But the deeper Sal gets into the world of IXI, he realizes everything that glitters isn't gold....

Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson’s lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he’s famous for....

In Intellectuals, Paul Johnson offered a fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world....

Washington remains a distant figure to many Americans, a failing that acclaimed author Paul Johnson sets out to rectify with this brilliantly vivid, sharply etched portrait....