Paul Johnson

Any new book by Paul Johnson is a matter of notice and celebration. Mr. Johnson, an amateur historian in the very best sense of the word, has an excellent claim to being the most widely read and intellectually influential historian in the...

In this article: Winston Churchill, World War I, World War II, Modern Times, Luftwaffe, History of the Second World War, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and Hugh Dowding

...understandably, in China. During his lifetime Mao took in more than gullible Chinese. He took over significant voices of the West. Paul Johnson, in his book Modern Times, refreshes the memory. One Western visitor wrote of Mao's China that it...

In this article: Mao Tse-tung, China, Leonid Brezhnev, Nikita Khrushchev, Reactionary, Golden Monkey, Modern Times, and National Review

...editor of The Spectator and the New Statesman. Miller resigned from the latter over a disagreement with the magazine's then editor Paul Johnson , over the extent to which the literary pages treated difficult subjects and also Johnson's...

In this article: Royal High School of Edinburgh, Downing College, Cambridge, University College, London, and The Spectator

The bestseller list used to be crowded with the likes of Friedman's "Free to Choose," George Gilder's "Wealth and Poverty," Paul Johnson's "Modern Times," Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind," Charles Murray's "Losing Ground"...

In this article: Republican Party, Glenn Beck, Barack Obama, John McCain, David Brooks, Sean Hannity, and Conservatism

...of plagiarism from at least one reader, an acknowledgement of "striking similarities" between Crowley's article and an article by Paul Johnson titled "In Praise of Richard Nixon" in the October 1988 issue of Commentary Magazine was...

In this article: Monica Crowley, Pat Buchanan, John McLaughlin, Richard Nixon, Jesus, Crocodile, God, Commentary Magazine, and Slate Magazine

...strength," said Zico, his former club manager and one of Brazil's all-time great players. UNITED STATES - PAUL JOHNSON When writer Paul Johnson, 81, recently received the highest civilian medal in the US, from President George W Bush, he...

In this article: Debbie Travis, George W Bush, Rawdon Christie, UK, Chris Birchall, London, World Cup, and Colin Kazim-Richards

...century by men and regimes that were and are built upon godless, totalitarian, materialistic and secular philosophies. Paul Johnson provides an indispensable chronicle of the evils wrought by men in the 20th century. In his magisterial...

In this article: Nazism, God, Ideology, E mail, Communism, Fascism, Modern Times, and Christopher Hitchens

...arrival, standing in the front row of the crowds outside St Peter's Basilica. She was accompanied by friend and historian Paul Johnson, known for his conservative Catholic views, and Catholic convert Charles Moore, former editor of the...

In this article: Pope Benedict XVI, Margaret Thatcher, Pope, Vatican, St Peter, New Statesman, Pope Paul VI, and Rome

...morning after the election coverage. Various experts are discussing the implications of her victory. Paul Johnson, with flowing red hair, has said he doesn't know whether Mrs T will give Ted Heath a job in the cabinet. Anthony Howard says...

In this article: Anthony Howard, Michael Foot, Shirley Williams, Labour Party, Margaret Thatcher, and Ted Heath

...From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and De Gaulle" (HarperCollins Publishers, 299 pages, $25.95), by Paul Johnson: Joan of Arc, the French farm girl who charged into battle, had little in common Queen Elizabeth I or...

In this article: Alexander the Great, Marilyn Monroe, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Winston Churchill, John Paul II, Reasonable person, Confucius, and Julius Caesar