Brief Lives
An intimate and very personal portrait of the Twentieth Century
$43.82
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
3 October 2011
Summary
An intimate and very personal portrait of the second half of the 20th centuryIn the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights, even the foul-mouthed publican Muriel Belcher, who ran the legendary Colony Club. Harking back to the scandalously anecdotal 17th century book by John Aubrey on the celebrities of his times, Brief Lives is the distilled essence of Johnson’s experience of a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099550259 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099550253 |
| Author: | Paul Johnson |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
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About The Author
Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson is a journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He came to prominence in the 50s writing for the New Statesman, where he was editor from 1965 - 1970. He then worked as a speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher (with whom he was at Oxford) and wrote a weekly column for the Spectator. He is married with two children and lives in London’s Notting Hill Gate. He has written many books, including A HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD,1983, A HISTORY OF THE JEWS, 1987, and HEROES, 2007.
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