Johnson, Paul 1928-

A history of the Jews by Paul Johnson ( Book )
54 editions published between 1987 and 2010 in 10 languages and held by 2,869 libraries worldwide
A 4,000-year survey covering Jewish history and the impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world.

A history of the American people by Paul Johnson ( Book )
33 editions published between 1997 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 2,732 libraries worldwide
Discovery, colonial life, revolution and .....

A history of Christianity by Paul Johnson ( Book )
40 editions published between 1976 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 2,346 libraries worldwide
Examines the history of Christianity from the time of Jesus Christ to the present.

Modern times : the world from the twenties to the eighties by Paul Johnson ( Book )
9 editions published between 1983 and 1988 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 2,133 libraries worldwide
An analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading, covering the great events, personalities, and ideas of the past six decades.

Intellectuals by Paul Johnson ( Book )
46 editions published between 1988 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 2,032 libraries worldwide
This volume presents a portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In a series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyan, Noam Chomsky, and others are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous. The author examines the rise of the intellectual as a sort of secular seer and moral arbiter, a role once filled by the priest or soothsayer. These intellectuals, in the author's opinion, promote themselves as possessing the moral authority to transform society, a claim that the author disputes.

The birth of the modern : world society, 1815-1830 by Paul Johnson ( Book )
10 editions published between 1991 and 1999 in English and held by 1,908 libraries worldwide
The author examines the politics, manners, economics, art, science and technology, commerce, and literature, of the nations of the world in the early 19th century.

Art : a new history by Paul Johnson ( Book )
6 editions published between 2003 and 2006 in English and Chinese and held by 1,857 libraries worldwide
In Art: A New History, Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a world historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period of art. Taking account of changing scholarship and shifting opinions, he draws our attention to a number of neglected artists and styles, especially in Scandinavia, Germany, Russia and the Americas. Paul Johnson puts the creative originality of the individual at the heart of his story. He pays particular attention to key periods: the emergence of the artistic personality in the Renaissance, the new realism of the early seventeenth century, the discovery of landscape painting as a separate art form, and the rise of ideological art. He notes the division of fashion art and fine art at the beginning of the twentieth century, and how it has now widened. Though challenging and controversial, Paul Johnson is not primarily a revisionist. He is a passionate lover of beauty who finds creativity in many places.

The Renaissance : a short history by Paul Johnson ( Book )
9 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and Portuguese and held by 1,819 libraries worldwide
Chronology -- The historical and economic background -- The Renaissance in literature and scholarship -- The anatomy of Renaissance sculpture -- The buildings of the Renaissance -- The apostolic successions of Renaissance painting -- The spread and decline of the Renaissance.

Napoleon by Paul Johnson ( Book )
20 editions published between 2001 and 2007 in 6 languages and held by 1,613 libraries worldwide
A biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing his life and quest for power from his birthplace on the island of Corsica to his exile and death on St. Helena.

Churchill by Paul Johnson ( Book )
20 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,563 libraries worldwide
Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson shows how Churchill's immense adaptability combined with his natural pugnacity to make him a formidable leader for the better part of a century. Rich with anecdote and quotation, Johnson's narrative illustrates the British statesman's humor, resilience, courage, and eccentricity as no other biography before.