Modern Times

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HISTORY
Named one of the Best Books of 1983 by The New York Times, this fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history covers the great events, personalities and ideas of the past six decades and offers a full-scale—if controversial—analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading.
"Truly a distinguished work of history Modem Times unites historical and critical consciousness. It is far from being a simple chronicle, though a vast wealth of events and personages and historical changes fill it We can take a great deal of intellectual pleasure in this book."
—Robert Nisbet, The New York Times Book Review
"Frequently surprises, even startles, us with new views of past events and fresh looks at the characters of the chief world movers and shakers, in politics, the military, economics, science, religion, and philosophy of six decades."
—Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal
"Wide-ranging and quirky, this history of our times (since World War I) hits all the... Tovább

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HISTORY
Named one of the Best Books of 1983 by The New York Times, this fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history covers the great events, personalities and ideas of the past six decades and offers a full-scale—if controversial—analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading.
"Truly a distinguished work of history Modem Times unites historical and critical consciousness. It is far from being a simple chronicle, though a vast wealth of events and personages and historical changes fill it We can take a great deal of intellectual pleasure in this book."
—Robert Nisbet, The New York Times Book Review
"Frequently surprises, even startles, us with new views of past events and fresh looks at the characters of the chief world movers and shakers, in politics, the military, economics, science, religion, and philosophy of six decades."
—Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal
"Wide-ranging and quirky, this history of our times (since World War I) hits all the highlights and hot spots: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, World War II and on to the 1980s A latter-day Mencken, Johnson is witty, gritty and compulsively readable."
—^Foreign Affairs
"A work of intellect and imagination "
—Stephen Spender, The Atlantic
"Johnson's insights are often brilliant and of value in their startling freshness." —Peter Loewenberg, Los Angeles Times
"A marvelously incisive and synthesizing account."
—David Gress, Commentary Vissza