Paul Johnson

A portrait of the thirth-fourth president covers his years as a five-star general and his two presidential terms, as well as his Kansas childhood, West Point education, and volatile relationship with Richard Nixon.

Essays on the Civil War drawn from Paul Johnson's History of the American People and Heroes. He examines the factors that led to the devastating rift in the years before the fighting, and recounts how the nation healed.

A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city. The religious revival that transformed America in the 1820s, making it the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and spawning reform movements...

In an adaptation of the original parody, the hound Yodeler Jones tells what happened when his beloved meatball escaped from a plateful of spaghetti and ended up under a bush outside his restaurant.

In an adaptation of the children's song, the good fairy tells of her efforts to make the naughty bunny behave and what happens when these efforts fail.

A survey covering four thousand years of Jewish history and the impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world.

After her pig George gets a ticket while driving her pickup truck, Miss Rosemary uses his habit of imitating Gertrude the cow to get him to behave as he should.

In this Appalachian folktale, Jack wins fame and fortune after killing ten yellow jackest with one whack.