The Quotable Paul Johnson: A Topical Compilation of His Wit, Wisdom and Satire

by Paul Johnson, George J. Marlin (Editor), Richard P. Rabatin (Editor)

The Quotable Paul Johnson contains 2,000 pithy and hard-hitting Johnson excerpts, edited and arranged alphabetically by topic, and with a cross-reference index.

Since the publication of Modern Times in 1983, Paul Johnson has been recognized as one of the world's most distinguished popular historians. In addition to having written twenty-eight books, including Intellectuals and History of the Jews , he frequently contributes essays and book reviews to both the British and the American press.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, History

432 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1994

About the author

Paul Johnson works as a historian, journalist and author. He was educated at Stonyhurst School in Clitheroe, Lancashire and Magdalen College, Oxford, and first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for, and later editing, the New Statesman magazine. He has also written for leading newspapers and magazines in Britain, the US and Europe.

Paul Johnson has published over 40 books including A History of Christianity (1979), A History of the English People (1987), Intellectuals (1988), The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815—1830 (1991), Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000 (1999), A History of the American People (2000), A History of the Jews (2001) and Art: A New History (2003) as well as biographies of Elizabeth I (1974), Napoleon (2002), George Washington (2005) and Pope John Paul II (1982).

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Contains in the neighborhood of 2,000 pithy and incisive excerpts of Johnson's writing arraigned alphabetically by topic. Both a valuable resource and good read.