![]() He was born in 1928 in Stoke, in the Pottery district of England, which he later charmingly recalled in an uncharacteristically mellow memoir, A Vanished Landscape. He was also a formidable polemicist: indeed, it was as if he were born with polemic in his blood. He was, as this range might suggest, vastly knowledgeable and possessed of an elephantine memory. ![]() The range of his writing’s subject matter was astonishing: from Egyptology and the history of the Jews and Christianity to that of the United States from studies of Mozart, Napoleon, and Darwin to art history and the history of modern times. ![]() ![]() Paul Johnson, prolific journalist and best-selling popular historian, has died at 94. ![]()
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