
Modern Times
The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
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Narrated by:
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Nadia May
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Paul Johnson
Beginning with May 29, 1919, when photographs of the solar eclipse confirmed the truth of Einstein's theory of relativity, Johnson goes on to describe Freudianism, the establishment of the first Marxist state, the chaos of "Old Europe", the Arcadian 20s, and the new forces in China and Japan. Also discussed are Karl Marx, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Roosevelt, Gandhi, Castro, Kennedy, Nixon, the '29 crash, the Great Depression, Roosevelt's New Deal, and the massive conflict of World War II.
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Critic reviews
"Johnson's insights are often brilliant and of value in their startling freshness." (Los Angeles Times)
"Frequently surprises, even startles us with new views of past events and fresh looks at the characters of the chief world movers and shakers, in politics, the military, economics, science, religion, and philosophy of six decades." (The Wall Street Journal)
"Truly a distinguished work of history...Modern Times unites historical and critical consciousness. It is far from being a simple chronicle, though a vast wealth of events and personages and historical changes fill it....We can take a great deal of intellectual pleasure in this book." (The New York Times)
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A must
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That said, he refuses to criticize dictators who were on the US side and even excuses their crimes in a way he never excuses communists. The chapter on the Spanish Civil War is absurd, and his critiques of intellectuals and "east coast elites" are simplistic and Nixonian in their transparent resentment.
Challenging for a liberal to read
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More conservative take
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Amazing view of the XX century.
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Listen to the Sample first
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Fantastic overview of 20th-century history
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Very well studied and researched
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However, I wanted to point out that Audible has this mistitled. The cover photo and titling show the sub-title as "From the Twenties to the Nineties". Yet this is a 1988 recording of the original 1983 text sub-titled "...to the Eighties". While Johnson seems cautiously to predict the end of the Soviet regime, he wrote this before it happened. Later, he added a chapter to the 2nd edition which covered the revolutions of the late 80s/early 90s which discussed various events and figures that brought about the end of the Soviet Communist Bloc, and that 2nd edition saw the "Eighties" changed to "Nineties" in the title.
While I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation, I would recommend finding a recording of the 2nd edition instead as it seems a more fitting end to this narrative history of the 20th Century..
Great in almoat every way, except this is mistitled on Audible.
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Unconventional wisdom
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Good insights, weak narration
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