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9780060935504

Modern Times

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    9780060935504

  • ISBN10:

    0060935502

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-02-08
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

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Summary

The classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century.

"A marvelously incisive and synthesizing account." -David Gress, Commentary

"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

"A work of intellect and imagination." -Stephen Spender, The Atlantic

"Frequently surprises, even startles us with new views off 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

"Johnson's insights are often brilliant and of value in their startling freshness."-Peter Loewenberg, Los Angeles Times

"Truly a distinguished work of history Modern 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 A. Nisbet,New York Times Book Review

"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 the 1980s A letter-day Mencken, Johnson is witty, gritty, and compulsively readable." -Foreign Affairs

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
A Relativist World
1(48)
The First Despotic Utopias
49(55)
Waiting for Hitler
104(34)
Legitimacy in Decadence
138(38)
An Infernal Theocracy, a Celestial Chaos
176(27)
The Last Arcadia
203(27)
Degringolade
230(31)
The Devils
261(48)
The High Noon of Aggression
309(32)
The End of Old Europe
341(31)
The Watershed Year
372(26)
Superpower and Genocide
398(34)
Peace by Terror
432(34)
The Bandung Generation
466(40)
Caliban's Kingdoms
506(38)
Ecperimenting with Half Mankind
544(31)
The European Lazarus
575(38)
America's Suicide Attempt
613(46)
The Collectivist Seventies
659(38)
The Recovery of Freedom
697(88)
Source Notes 785(56)
Index 841

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