Books by Paul Johnson
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review 1: This was a quick and enjoyable read. Mozart was a phenomenal genius, and this short book -- short just like Mozart's life -- gives a marvelous sense of that genius. For those who don't know much about Mozart's life, and don't know whether or not he was a founding member of the Da...
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review 1: Compressing the life of a man who captained Britain through its stormiest years into a concise 192 pages is a formidable challenge, but Mr. Johnson is up to the task. The reader gets a good sense of the sheer bravado of Churchill's personality, of his mortality (prone to bouts of...
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review 1: I am certainly no expert on Socrates' but this an easy book to read. It will reasonably inform you of the man much beyond simply readings of Plato's dialogues,; and you can do so with very little effort. Because I know very little of Socrates I do not have the right to give a th...