Author: Paul M. Johnson
Translator: Yoon-jeong Cho
Publisher: Salim
Hardcover | 2-volume set | 223*152mm
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About This Book
The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
The history of the 20th century is marked by two great narratives:
nations locked in savage wars over ideology and territory, and
scientists overturning the received wisdom of preceding generations. For
Paul Johnson, the modern era begins with one of the second types of
revolutions, in 1919, when English astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington
translated observations from a solar eclipse into proof of Albert
Einstein's general theory of relativity, which turned Newtonian physics
on its head. Eddington's research became an international cause celebre:
"No exercise in scientific verification, before or since, has ever
attracted so many headlines or become a topic of universal
conversation," Johnson writes, and it made Einstein into science's first
real folk hero.
Einstein looms large over Johnson's narrative, as do others who sought
to harness the forces of nature and society: men like Mao Zedong, "a
big, brutal, earthy and ruthless peasant," and Adolf Hitler, creator of
"a brutal, secure, conscience-less, successful, and, for most Germans,
popular regime." Johnson takes a contentious conservative viewpoint
throughout: he calls the 1960s "America's suicide attempt," deems the
Watergate affair "a witch-hunt ... run by liberals in the media," and
deems the rise of Margaret Thatcher a critical element in Western
civilization's "recovery of freedom"--arguable propositions all, but
ones advanced in a stimulating and well-written narrative that provides
much food for thought in the course of its more than 800 pages.
--Gregory McNamee (Amazon.com)
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