

A History of the English People
Author: Paul Johnson
Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
Unabridged: 15 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/27/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, History
Author: Paul Johnson
Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
Unabridged: 15 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/27/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, History
Beginning with Modern Times (1985), Paul Johnson's books are acknowledged masterpieces of historical analysis. He is a regular columnist for Forbes and The Spectator, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.
Wanda McCaddon began recording books for the fledgling audiobook industry in the early 1980s and has since narrated well over six hundred titles for major audio publishers, as well as abridging, narrating, and coproducing classic titles for her own company, Big Ben. Audiobook listeners may be familiar with her voice under one of her two "nom de mikes," Donada Peters and Nadia May. The recipient of an Audie Award and more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, AudioFile magazine has named her one of recording's Golden Voices. Wanda also appears regularly on the professional stage in the San Francisco Bay Area.
An illuminating broad look at the history of the English, filled with unique analysis that has changed the way I think about English and world history. Rather than a blow-by-blow timeline of English history, treat this like a massive thesis, analysing the spirit of the English people, what makes the......more
Somewhere during the 1970s Paul Johnson changed from thoughtful journalist to troglodyte reactionary. Fortunately this book was written before the change. If you've read any of his other stuff, like Modern Times, or A History of the American People and hated them, be aware that this is a very differ......more
"Je pozoruhodné, jak málo stop zanechala na anglickém národu stoletá zkušenost s nabytím a ztrátou impéria. Možná na dvě desetiletí propadli Angličané kouzlu svého imperialistického poslání. Během búrských válek však tato nálada opadla a v roce 1918 se zcela vytratila. Mezi dvěma světovými válkami v......more
“Beautifully constructed…An idiosyncratic viewpoint has enabled Mr. Johnson to extract a great deal of new information to add to the conventional account of English, or British, history.” Times Literary Supplement
“He is abreast of modern scholarship, and a reader with some command of English history will find Johnson’s iconoclasm stimulating and challenging. His coverage of the last 200 years deserves to be labeled brilliant historical journalism.” Library Journal
“This is a John Bull of a book, the sort of book that Cobbett might have written…Splendid stuff.” Observer
“An excellent book that will stir up a great many people, and so it should. New Statesman