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| Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties, the | 
 enlarge | Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 115024
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 880
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 2.2
ISBN: 0060935502
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780060935504
ASIN: 0060935502
Publication Date: August 2001
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| Customer Reviews:
 Deep, deep, deep, deep! February 10, 1999
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
History at it's finest. The Bibliography is worth it alone. All persons with minds must buy this book to assist in rational thought!
Enrages the left by confronting them with the truth. November 29, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nothing makes a tired leftist more furious than an engagement with the truth. Johnson's book, now a classic, provides a schematic for understanding the political and moral bankruptcy of "progressive" social movements and the inevitable misery and distress which follow as a consequence.
A must read for a balanced view of our history and times... November 27, 1998
An excellent book for any serious student/reader of history. Johnson provides an alternative perspective that turns populist history and political correctness on its earn.
 Don't be fooled by the engaging literary style of this book November 2, 1998
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is not a work of history, it is a polemical tract pushing a conservative, Euro-American centered, exclusionist political agenda. The "facts" are often wrong, and the conclusions frequently absurd. The most blatant example of this is the representation of leaders of the post-WWII Third-World liberation movements as being little more than thugs. Anyone wishing to read a worthwhile history of the twentieth-century should consult Hobsbawm's recent AGE of EXTREMES.
 A carefully calculated polemic and an act of propaganda. September 8, 1998
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Mr. Johnson writes in a very witty and entertaining manner, never failing to spice his carefully constructed edifice of conservative Catholic reaction with moderately witty barbs and amusing anecdotes. But this is a work of polemic, pure and simple. Starting from the simplistic premise that the worst excesses of the modern period are largely the result of "relativistic" ethics and "social engineering," Mr. Johnson reduces his own argument to absurdity, again and again. "Ghandi," Mr. Johnson avers, "was more like Hitler" than anyone else. One need not be an admirer of Ghandi to recognize the cranky, even eccentric, extremism of such a remark. One need not even put any argument forward to refute it. Mr. Johnson holds up the horrors of the 20th Century as solely the product of relativism and social engineering -- without any attempt to account for the horrors of previous centuries, which were characterized by despotism and absolutism, politically and morally. This reader grew weary of Mr. Johnson's ideologically based prejudices. The book is in the bin.
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