A history of the English people
''Beautifully constructed . . . An idiosyncratic viewpoint has enabled Mr. Johnson to extract a great deal of new information to add to the conventional account of English, or British, history.'' --Times Literary Supplement''An excellent book that will stir up a great many people, and so it should.'' --New Statesman''He is abreast of modern scholarship, and a reader with some command of English history will find Johnson's iconoclasm stimulating and challenging. His coverage of the last 200 years deserves to be labeled brilliant historical journalism.'' --Library Journal''This is a John Bull of a book, the sort of book that Cobbett might have written . . . Splendid stuff.'' --Observer--This text refers to theAudio CDedition.