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Modern Times

The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
Paul Johnson
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ISBN: 0060935502
Format: Paperback
 
Pub Date: 08/01/2001
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For Johnson the 20th century was the age of tyrants and dictators, men like Mao Zedong and Adolph Hitler. Johnson takes a contentious, conservative viewpoint through all the major eras and events of the century. He names the 1960s "America's suicide attempt," and deems the elections of Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II in 1979 and of Ronald Reagan in 1980 as the pivotal events in Western Civilization's "recovery of freedom." He makes a convincing case. His writing is crisp and clear and his arguments advance in a stimulating narrative that provdes much food for thought. 880 pages. high school & adult readers
I use this as the text for my high school seniors as we finish our study of western civilization - Rob Shearer
 
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