The History of the American People by Paul Johnson

i was told as a college freshman by another freshman that i should read paul johnson's book, modern times. And i did it, and i loved every minute of it. Because he writes in a crisp and engaging style where there are curious and interesting anecdotes on every page or quotations you've never heard before. He'll go on about some some invention and why it mattered. There was nobody like him, really. Modern times taught me that the people i had been taught were great presidents were actually bad,. The supposedly bad presidents were oftentimes not so bad. But beyond that, i learned a lot about the history of africa in the twentieth century and the socialist experiments that occurred in