Articles By Paul Johnson
October 2016
Clement Attlee led an exemplary life, and was the smooth-running machine at heart of the wartime government, but was never remotely vainglorious
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December 2015
A new biography of Eamon de Valera, one of the most important and mysterious figures in Irish history
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November 2015
The first female PM faced unprecedented vitriol from snobbish cultural bureaucrats
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October 2015
Cardinal Bergoglio's road to the Vatican
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September 2015
Henry Kissinger was often compared to Machiavelli but Niall Ferguson shows he was, at heart, an idealist
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July/August 2015
The rich, varied, and absorbing life, and careers, of John Freeman
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April 2015
The nobility of Nye Bevan
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December 2014
Boris seems to subconsciously avoid the subject of Lloyd George, though he shares more in common with him
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October 2014
A new work brings into striking contrast the personalities of Stalin himself and the other members of the Soviet elite in his time
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June 2014
It is a remarkable fact that WW1 produced a distinctive brand of poetry, and poets, and WW2 nothing comparable
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May 2014
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March 2014
The worst episode in Hugh Trevor-Roper’s career made him a better man
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May 2013
The woman I knew for 40 years was persistent but never provocative. She will be ranked among the very greatest figures in English history
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March 2013
Robert A. Ventresca's attempt to dispassionately assess the divisive Pope Pius XVII's pontificate is well-meaning but a penance to read
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January/February 2013
Mirabel and Hugh Cecil's In Search of Rex Whistler is a fine tribute to a major artist cut down in his prime
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January/February 2012
Evelyn Waugh said that WWII would serve writers well, replenishing their stocks of experience. But several works borne out of the war were masterpieces of literature
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October 2011
Book review of Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
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June 2011
Review of Treason of the Heart: From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby by David Pryce-Jones
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January/February 2011
Book Review: The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas
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December 2010
Book Review: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton selected by Bevis Hillier
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October 2010
A Journey by Tony Blair
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June 2010
Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh
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January/February 2010
Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Essays and Provocations by Henry Fairlie and Best Seat in the House by Frank Johnson
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October 2009
The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan
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June 2009
Abandoning narrative form in history writing leads to laziness, the omission of important facts, and a flimsier understanding of cause and effect. Why doesn't the OUP know that?
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December 2008
The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
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About Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson was Editor of the New Statesman from 1965-1970. He is the author of many books including, most recently, biographies of Churchill, Darwin, Stalin, Mozart, and Eisenhower.
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