Paul Johnson

Paul Bede Johnson (2 November 1928 - 12 Januarie 2023) was 'n Engelse joernalis, geskiedkundige, toespraakskrywer, en outeur. Alhoewel hy tydens sy vroeëre loopbaan geassosieer is met linkse politieke denke was hy teen die einde van sy loopbaan as 'n konserwatiewe populêre historikus beskou.

Johnson is opgevoed aan die onafhanklike Jesuïete-skool, Stonyhurst Kollege en by Magdalen Kollege, Oxford. Hy het aanvanklik in die 1950's bekendheid verwerf as joernalis vir die New Statesman, waarvan hy later die redakteur was. 

Hy was 'n produktiewe skrywer en het meer as veertig boeke geskryf en bydraes gemaak tot verskeie tydskrifte en koerante. Sy seuns sluit die joernalis Daniel Johnson, stigter van Standpoint, en die sakeman Luke Johnson, voormalige voorsitter van Channel 4, in.

Gedeeltelike bibliografie
Johnson se boeke word volgens onderwerp gelys. Die land van publikasie is die Verenigde Koninkryk, tensy anders vermeld.

Bundels, polemieke en kontemporêre geskiedenis
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 .  An anthology of New Statesman articles from the 1950s and 1960s.
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 1994 The Quotable Paul Johnson A Topical Compilation of His Wit, Wisdom and Satire (George J. Marlin, Richard P. Rabatin, Heather Higgins (Redakteurs)) 1994 Noonday Press/1996 Atlantic Books(VSA)
 1994 Wake Up Britain – a Latter-day Pamphlet Weidenfeld & Nicolson
 1996 To Hell with Picasso & Other Essays: Selected Pieces from “The Spectator” Weidenfeld & Nicolson
 2009 Churchill (biography), 192 pp.
 2012 Darwin: Portrait of a genius (Viking, 176 bladsye)

Kuns en argitektuur
 1980 British Cathedrals Weidenfeld & Nicolson 
 1993 Gerald Laing : Portraits Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd (with Gerald Laing & David Mellor MP)
 1999 Julian Barrow's London Fine Art Society
 2003 Art: A New History Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Geskiedenis
 1972 The Offshore Islanders: England's People from Roman Occupation to the Present/to European Entry [1985 uitgawe, History of the English People; 1998 uitgawe, Offshore Islanders: A History of the English People] Weidenfeld & Nicolson
 1974 Elizabeth I: a Study in Power and Intellect Weidenfeld & Nicolson
 1974 The Life and Times of Edward III Weidenfeld & Nicolson
 1976 Civilizations of the Holy Land Weidenfeld & Nicolson

 1977 Education of an Establishment in The World Of the Public School (pp13–28), geredigeer deur George MacDonald Fraser, Weidenfeld & Nicolson /St Martins Press (VSA uitgawe)
 1978 The Civilization of Ancient Egypt Weidenfeld & Nicolson
 1981 Ireland: A Concise History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day [as ...Land of Troubles 1980 Eyre Methuen] Granada
 1983 A History of the Modern World from 1917 to the 1980s Weidenfeld & Nicolson
 1984 Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s Weidenfeld & Nicolson [later, ...Present Time en ...Year 2000 2005 uitgawe] Weidenfeld & Nicolson
 1986 The Oxford Book of Political Anecdotes Oxford University Press (redakteur)
 1987 Gold Fields A Centenary Portrait Weidenfeld & Nicolson
 1987 The History of the Jews [2001 uitgawe]  Weidenfeld & Nicolson (latere uitgawes getiteld A History of the Jews)
 1991 The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815–1830 Weidenfeld & Nicolson (VK) 
 1997 A History of the American People Weidenfeld & Nicolson  
 2000 The Renaissance [: A Short History *] Weidenfeld & Nicolson/*Random House (VSA)
 2002 Napoleon (Lives S.) Weidenfeld & Nicolson [2003 Phoenix pbk]
 2005 George Washington: The Founding Father (Eminent Lives Series) Atlas Books
 2006 Creators HarperCollins Publishers (USA) 
 2007 Heroes HarperCollins Publishers (USA)  ; ; HarperCollins Publishing link to book 
 2010 Humorists HarperCollins Publishers (VSA) 
 2011 Socrates Viking (VSA)

Memoirs
 2004 The Vanished Landscape: A 1930s Childhood in the Potteries  Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 
 2010 Brief Lives Hutchinson

Romans
 1959 Left of Centre MacGibbon & Kee ["Left Of Centre describes the meeting of a Complacent Young Man with an Angry Old City"]
 1964 Merrie England MacGibbon & Kee

Geloof
 1975 Pope John XXIII Hutchinson
 1977 A History of Christianity Weidenfeld & Nicolson /1976 Simon & Schuster /Atheneum (VSA)   (S&S Touchstone se sagtebanduitgawe is in 1995 gepubliseer)
 1982 Pope John Paul II And The Catholic Restoration St Martins Press
 1996 The Quest for God: A Personal Pilgrimage Weidenfeld & Nicolson/HarperCollins (VSA)
 1997 The Papacy Weidenfeld & Nicolson
 2010 Jesus: A Biography From a Believer Penguin Books

Reisjoernale
 1973 The Highland Jaunt Collins (met George Gale)
 1974 A Place in History: Places & Buildings Of British History Omega [Thames TV (VK)]
 1978 National Trust Book of British Castles  Granada Paperback [1992 Weidenfeld uitgawe as Castles Of England, Scotland And Wales]
 1984 The Aerofilms Book of London from the Air Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Verwysings

Bronne 
 Robin Blackburn "A Fabian at the End of His Tether" (New Statesman 14 Desember 1979, herdruk in Stephen Howe (red) Lines of Dissent: Writings from the New Statesman 1913–88 Londen: Verso, 1988, pp284–96
 Christopher Booker The Seventies: Portrait of a Decade Allen Lane, 1980 (hoofstukke: "Paul Johnson: The Convert Who Went over the Top" pp238–44 en "Facing the Catastrophe" pp304–7

Eksterne skakels
 Amptelike Webwerf: The Paul Johnson Archives
 Feud – and it's a scorcher! – artikel deur John Walsh oor Johnson se verskille met The Guardian in The Independent 28 Julie 1997
 New York Times Featured Author 9 September 2000: Paul Johnson
 White House press release regarding Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to Johnson
 Paul Johnson se artikels en onderhoude (Engels en Spaans)

 Booknotes onderhoud met Johnson oor A History of the American People, 5 April 1998.
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 The Weekend Interview with Paul Johnson: Why America Will Stay on Topdeur Brian Carney (Wall Street Journal, 5 Maart 2011) 
 Paul Johnson op BBC Radio 4 se Desert Island Discs, 15 Januarie 2012

Britse geskiedkundiges
Britse joernaliste
Britse skrywers
Geboortes in 1928
Sterftes in 2023