I can't seem to get enough Churchill biographies. And Paul Johnson's is among the best. Well researched, written and filled with anecdotes and pithy quotes. I especially liked Johnson's arguments as to whether Churchill "saved England" during WWII. Also the lesson's learned at the end of the b...
This history of the Jews is written through the ideas of a devout Christian who believes, i think wrongly, that Jesus intended to abandon Judaism in order to start a new religion . Yet, Johnson's own account of Jesus' ministry confirms that Jesus, a student and follower of Hillel, had as His miss...
A few years ago, I read the book Intellectuals by Paul Johnson. There really aren’t enough words to describe what that book did to my thinking about modern history. It was scandalous, salacious, shocking, sensational, and, most importantly, sentiment-shifting. The fact that people regularly put t...