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Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties Hardcover – January 1, 1983

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper & Row; First Edition (January 1, 1983)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 817 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060151595
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060151591
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.38 pounds

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Beginning with Modern Times (1985), Paul Johnson's books are acknowledged masterpieces of historical analysis. He is a regular columnist for Forbes and The Spectator, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.

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Nick Pierson

Modern Times is a must read!

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2014

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If you want to understand the world and how we came to be in the situation we are today, you must understand what happened before today. Paul Johnson documents what went on during the early 20th century up to the 80's. Each Chapter that holds your attention from start to finish because of his attention to Historical detail in the country he is discussing and the significance of the detail to events other parts of the world.

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Prof. R. Paris

Masterful!

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One of the best analysis and disection of a crucial period of Western Culture. His presentation of Lenin's takeover in 1917, using the most perfect Machiavellian strategy, is nothing less of masterful. I am only sorry my finances didn't allow me to buy the recent edition. Eventually, I will. Strongly recommended!

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raymond a hawk

A Must Read Book

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2014

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This is required reading for new hires at the wall street journel. I can see why after reading it. This is a must read for every US citizen.
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Bannerg

Great 20th century overview

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Good reading but hard to stay interested. Good read but tough read.

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James Trunzler

Modern Times

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Paul Johnson is a great writer and I am looking forward to reading more of his books. Everyone should read more history!

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John Mark

Content is wonderful, but...

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2016

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Content is wonderful.
Sadly, the audio is poor, and with a heavy English accent. Be prepared to tune the audio with an equalizer.

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Michael J.

Period covered really 1900-1981. He explains that war is about land grab and power, governments print money to fund it all.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2018

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Paul Johnson writes quite clearly and has mastery of the basic economics required, unlike many historians who talk in terms of Great Ideas and Great Men. He explains that war is about land grab and power, governments print money to finance welfare and warfare and eventually bankrupt a lot of people. He is very clear about the inevitable downside to socialism in all its forms. His period covered is really from more like 1900-1981, he does not have any dates in his book after 1982, understandable as it has a publication date of 1983. He goes back to the pre-WWI period to set the scene for the Kaiser's Great War, and outlines the reasons for this setting up WWII.

He covers the whole globe in that he has mastered China, Russia, Japan, India, the USA, the UK, and Europe, (and the EU, not the same thing as Europe), in sufficient detail to be able to boil it down to the essentials, which is all he can cover in a work of this length. This is hugely beneficial to those of us who have picked up most of our twentieth century history from the movies and feel a little baffled by the contradictory lunacy of it all.

I would take a star off and give it a four if I felt a little more critical today, he does have some typical historian's weaknesses like repeatedly calling Hitler 'right wing' while explaining in great detail how he named his party the 'National SOCIALIST German Workers' Party', and that he did not bother to nationalize the industry because the had already nationalized the people and taken over their businesses by putting Nazis in at the top of companies like Krupps and IG Farben (more Zyklon B anyone?). But generally excellent stuff.

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