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  • Paperback: 880 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Revised edition (1 Aug 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060935502
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060935504
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.5 x 5.6 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars An engaging, thought-provoking, read., 30 May 1999
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This review is from: Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Paperback)
This is possibly the most interesting historical book around. Even those who are not interested in history will enjoy this book.

The massive scope of this work is impressive. The two areas that remain with me, years after reading this book are,

1. The further reinforcement of the notion of "Man's Inhumanity to Man". That man, when left to his own resources, without social restraint, will behave more beastly than any animal. I like to suppose that we can rise above that...but as this book shows, as societies have moved to be more democratic, ruled not by monarchies but by common man, we have become more barbaric.

2. The utter failure of the communist movement...the misguided beginnings, the continued mistakes, blunders...an elitist group of intellectuals who had no faith in the common man; just how non-communist the communist regime was...and this work was written before the demise of the communist world. How interesting it would have been if this book concluded just a few years later.

This book would be great for anyone who desires to spark the interest of history in those who have no desire to study it....(i.e., history teachers and their bored students)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Readable history from a unique perspective, 20 May 1999
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Paul Johnson combines two qualities hard to find in today's historical works - readability and a theocentric world view. He challenges the reader to interpret the facts honestly, abandoning past stereotypes and biases. A fascinating overview of our century. I hope it's updated for the rest of the 1990's. A must read for anyone with an interest in modern history. Secular humanists may not like some of Johnson's conclusions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An astonishing achievement; a key text of our age., 4 Aug 1999
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Johnson surveys our blood-soaked century and its mountains of corpses and lays the blame at the feet of utopian politics and the totalitarian urge to power. American education cannot be considered fully reformed until this book is required reading in every school in the land.
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