Well written with scholarly references. Style will appeal to the historian and less scholarly readers....
Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson's lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he's famous for...
Presents the case that the period just after the Napoleonic Wars was crucial to the formation of today's society....
An acclaimed historian presents a revelatory look at the greatest statesman of the twentieth century For eminent historian Paul Johnson, Winston Churchill remai...
From the book's introduction: "'civilizations of the holy land' is an expression not easily defined in either space or time. By the Holy Land, most of us mean ...
Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his music As he's done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed...
From the "most celebrated and best-loved British historian in America" (Wall Street Journal), an elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of Winston Churchill ...
"Spectacular . . . A delight to read." --The Wall Street Journal From bestselling biographer and historian Paul Johnson, a brilliant portrait of Socrates, ...
Learn how to use the popular MVVM Light development framework with a focus on reliable, maintainable code that can be deployed across any of the .NET-supported ...
Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, sto...
Paul Johnson looks back on two thousand years of English history. He re-examines the story of how a small nation, living in a geographical backwater, evolved un...
The author of the masterly volumes Intellectuals, Creators, and Heroes returns with a collection of biographical portraits of the greatest humorists and wits in...
By far the most important figure in the history of the United States, George Washington liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British ...
A galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western history In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson, the bestselling author of Intel...