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About Paul Johnson
See more books from this AuthorJohnson's narrative and analytical skills even compensate for many dubious passages when his conservatism leads him to stretch for parallels between 19th- and 20th-century politics--for example, when he sees the genesis of the US-British "special relationship" at a moment when both nations contin...
| Read Full Review of The Birth of the Modern: Worl...In 1815, on the eve of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, reactionaryism seemed triumphant everywhere, but by 1830 a decisive shift toward democracy had occurred. In the intervening 15 years, contends Joh
Jun 03 1991 | Read Full Review of The Birth of the Modern: Worl...This marvelously readable work from the author of Modern Times , a BOMC main selection in cloth, chronicles the formation of the modern world, illuminating the epoch of Andrew Jackson, Wordsworth, Goy
Jun 28 1999 | Read Full Review of The Birth of the Modern: Worl...In light of the outstanding new biography American Prometheus and other recent scholarship on Oppenheimer, this account doesn't transform our perception of the man or the case, but it does fill in background on the anti-Communist agitators inside and outside the federal government, such as Atomi...
Jun 06 2005 | Read Full Review of The Birth of the Modern: Worl...This marvelously readable work from the author of Modern Times , a BOMC main selection in cloth, chronicles the formation of the modern world, illuminating the epoch of Andrew Jackson, Wordsworth, Goya and Beethoven.
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