Paul Johnson

Author

Paul Johnson was a British historian, journalist, and author whose prolific body of work made him one of the most widely read popular historians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Born in 1928, he edited the New Statesman and wrote over forty books. The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 is an epic history of the... period that created the modern world — the years immediately following the Napoleonic Wars when industrialisation, democracy, and cultural revolution transformed human civilisation. Johnson's other major works include A History of the Modern World, A History of the English People, and A History of Christianity. Johnson died in 2023. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers sweeping, opinionated popular history from one of the most prolific historians of modern times. Read more Show less