Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Perennial Classics) Revised Edition

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Paul Johnson is a historian whose work ranges over the millennia and the whole gamut of human activities. He regularly writes book reviews for several UK magazines and newspapers, such as the Literary Review and The Spectator, and he lectures around the world. He lives in London, England.

Paperback: 880 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Revised edition (August 7, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060935502
ISBN-13: 978-0060935504
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Old Ephraim

Americans need to read this book.

August 4, 2013

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Johnson makes the history of the 20th century not only readable, but exciting. Frequently, I found it to be as much of a page-turner as good fiction. Johnson makes sense of a time that was confusing even to those of us who lived through part of it. It is not always immediately clear what is happening in world events because of the bias of the reporting and the limited information that is available at the time. With time, more information comes to light and what happened can be analyzed without the emotion of the moment. Some of the reviews that discredit Johnson's history as a conservative view fail to take into account how skewed the reporting at the time was and how limited or one sided the information was. Between the two world wars, there was a general moment of the American and European intelligentsia away from capitalism and toward socialism, government planning, and social engineering. Because of the the depression, it was easy to convince people that capitalism had failed and the new Russian plan lead by Stalin was the way of the future. Unfortunately, few Americans knew of the horrors taking place inside Russian since information was so tightly controlled. It wasn't until generations later that even part of the truth became known. Since this isn't generally taught, it is easy to see why many people would have a hard time accepting these revelations. However you decide, its very thought provoking to see history from a different perspective.
I highly recommend this book to everyone who loves history or just wants to make better sense of what is happening in the world today.

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20th Century History as I've never read it...

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First, my main criticism...actually, my only criticism. Only twenty chapters in a book of 784 pages of text makes this a difficult book to work through. (In addition to 66 pages of notes and 29 of index.) Chapters of thirty and forty pages without even page breaks on a topic as complex as world politics gets mighty tedious and confusing at times. I can't even count the number of times I started into a new paragraph, and then after a few sentences had to return to the previous paragraph trying to figure out what I missed. The topics change that fast, and that completely. One second we are talking about something or someone in one part of the world, and the next sentence we are on to a new locale and cast of characters entirely.

For this I fault the publisher and not the author. I don't care if the author submitted this work with NO chapters, it is the publisher's responsibility to organize it in a digestible fashion. These twenty chapters should have been UNITS, each divided into at least five or six chapters. As a reader, I like to thumb ahead a few pages to see if I'm close to the end of a chapter or at least near a page break, and as such will continue on so as to complete the train of thought. With this book, that is impossible.

That said, the actual history as written by Paul Johnson is simply stunning in it's detail of not only events and characters, but also the personalities and intricacies of said events and characters. And the writing itself is perfectly comprehensible. As a history buff, I had taken so many History electives in college that I inadvertently ended up with a minor. And yet, so much of what Johnson has written is absolutely news to me. I was continually amazed by how little I actually knew about some of the major historical events of the last century and in particular, the cast of characters responsible. Unfortunately, the RE-writing of history by academics bears a great deal of the blame. Or, as in the case of the legacy media today, much of it was simply never discussed or reported on, effectively sweeping huge swaths of it under the rug.

If this book was a bit more user-friendly logistically, this should be required course material in every college and university in this country, if not the world.

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An amazing read!

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This book is an absolute revelation to read. I'm a fan of 'real' history - and not the tainted stuff we were taught in public school. This book will really open your eyes about how things really happened - and why. The parallels to today's times from just the recent past are amazing. We've been through all of this before - just take a look. I am a lot happier having read this and gotten the insight into the 'long wave' of our recent history, rather then the knee-jerk crap we read in the fake press every day. It's not a light read - but it offers great insight into the affairs of the world - not only 'then' - but today as well.

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It's coverage of the 20th century from World War I ...

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It's coverage of the 20th century from World War I and its aftermath (Lenin's tyranny) into the Reagan years has something new on virtually every page. For example, Johnson points out the similarities of Herbert Hoover's economic policies to FDR's, and their break with Harding and Coolidge policies, or again in his analysis of fascism as a Marxist heresy, or in the similarity of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung on issues of Chinese nationalism. Johnson writes with exceptional verve and clarity and his analysis has profoundly influenced my view of recent history.

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