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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* 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  https://web.archive.org/web/20071204022529/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199712/ai_n8772986
* 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)
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** *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