Paul Johnson

In Socrates: A Man for Our Times, Johnson draws from little-known resources to construct a fascinating account of one of history’s greatest thinkers....

In Churchill, Johnson applies a wide lens and an unconventional approach to illuminate the various phases of Churchill's career.....

This historical magnum opus covers 4,000 years of the extraordinary history of the Jews as a people, a culture, and a nation....

First published in 1976, Paul Johnson's exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude....

This fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history offers a full-scale, if controversial, analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading....

Since the time of Voltaire and Rousseau, the secular intellectual has increasingly filled the vacuum left by the decline of the cleric and assumed the functions of moral mentor and critic of mankind....

Johnson's monumental history of the United States, from the first settlers to the Clinton administration, covers every aspect of American culture...

Paul Johnson, the most celebrated popular historian of our time, takes a scalpel to Stalin, whom he considers "one of the outstanding monsters of history."....

Ireland is inarguably a beautiful, enchanted place. But its history is more turbulent, fascinating, and terrible than any other....

In this enlightening and entertaining work, Johnson presents heroism through examples in history....