A History of the American People.

JOHNSON, Paul.

Item Number: 125055

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997.

First edition of Johnson’s epic history of America and its most famed figures. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “Best wishes Paul Johnson.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting: Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Bridgeman Art Library).

"No other national story," Paul Johnson writes, "holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." This work is not just another history of the United States. It is a reinterpretation, from start to finish, of every aspect of American history, of its politics and economics, of its art and literature and science, of its society and manners and, not least, of its complex and all-pervading religious beliefs.