Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
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"Truly a distinguished work of history...Modern Timesunites historical & critical consciousness. It is far from being a simple chronicle, though a vast wealth of events & personages & historical changes fill it...We can take a great deal of intellectual pleasure in this book."—Robert A. Nisbet,NY Times Book Review
"Wide-ranging & quirky, this history of our times (since World War I) hits all the highlights & hot spots: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, World War II, & the 1980s...A letter-day Mencken, Johnson is witty, gritty, & compulsively readable." — Foreign Affairs
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"Frequently surprises, even startles us with new views of past events & fresh looks at the characters of the chief world movers & shakers, in politics, the military, economics, science, religion, & philosophy of six decades."—Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal
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