Are you as informed as you’d like to benabout all the great events and movementsnof your lifetime?nFor the first time: a sweeping, detaiied survey ofnfile significant events of our century —nby a conservative. And one wfio managesnto be both styiish and biuntnRsrely does a work of history receive from major publications the unbridlednenthusiasm that is greeting Modem Times. Still less often doesnsuch a book by a conservative enjoy this kind of reception.n”A bold and capacious mind is required for what Paul Johnson has undertaken innthis book: a history of the world during the last 60 years, taking in all continentsnand major countries. Fortunately, the author possesses in abundance the qualitiesnnecessary to the enterprise unites historical and critical consciousnessnJohnson is most interested throughout in drawing conclusions, many of them provocative,nfrom his materials. He stands in the train of those historians of the lastntwo centuries for whom historical writing seemed profitless unless it yielded upnrevelations and judgments pertinent to the world around us By far the greaternpart of Mr. Johnson’s book is concerned with.. .the will to power.. .It is in thisnlight that Mr. Johnson sees the rise, commencing with Lenin, of ‘gangsterstatesmen.’nAmong them he includes most prominently MussoUni, Stalin, Hitlernand Mao Zedong. In Mr. Johnson’s view, Lenin was by far the most influentialn.. .A good deal of Mr. Johnson’s book is devoted to tracing the spread ofnLeninism, and all its ramifications, in the world. Ordinarily we sharply distinguishncommunism from what became known as fascism. But he sees the distinction asnbeing without much difference. All the founding fathers of totalitarianism. Hitlernand Mussolini included, were socialists in principle.. .There are 20 closely-packednchapters in the book, and I must content myself with a modest selection to conveynits riches we can take a great deal of intellectual pleasure in his book, which isna truly distinguished work of history.” — Robert Nisbet, page 1, NY TimesnBook Reviewn”Brilliant, densely textured, intellectually challenging…skillfully compressed…npowerfully cautionary book.” — Edmund Fuller, Wall St.nJournaln”Rip-roaring survey of the pathology of modern relativism…provocative.”n— Timen”Delicious…Johnson’s verdicts on historical figures are shrewd andnunsparing. He calls Gandhi a ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’ whose rhetoric ofnnonviolence was ‘nonsense,’ given the turmoil he ignited AboutnAmerican affairs Johnson is extremely keen. He speaks contemptuouslynof ‘the Watergate witch-hunt,’ brought about by people in thenmedia he is not fooled by the favorable publicity the ‘activist’ (read:nleftist) judiciary has received at home.. .But he ends on a note of hope,nseeing ‘palimpsests of freedom’ amid the destruction.” — JosephnSobran, National ReviewnHow to get this massiven$Z7’95 volume FREEnHow the Club WorksnEvery 4 weeks (13 times a year) you get a free copy of thenClub Bulletin, which offers you the Featured Selection plus angood choice of Alternates — all of interest to conservatives. •nIf you want the Featured Selection, do nothing. It will comenautomatically. • If you don’t want the Featured Selection, ornyou do want an Alternate, indicate your wishes on the handyncard enclosed with your Bulletin and return it by the deadlinendate. • The majority of Club books will be offered at 20-50%ndiscounts, plus a charge for shipping and handling. • Asnsoon as you buy and pay for 3 books at regular Club prices,nyour membership may be ended at any time, either by you ornby the Club. • If you ever receive a Featured Selectionnwithout having had 10 days to decide if you want It, you maynreturn it at Club expense for full credit. • Good service. Noncomputers! • The Club will offer regular Superbargains,nmostly at 70-90% discounts plus shipping and handling,nSuperbargains do NOT count toward fultilling your Clubnobligation, but do enable you to buy fine books at giveawaynprices. * Only one membership per household.nA long, leisurelynread”of 817pages U 54n[H^es of Source Notesnn 29-p<^e subject andnproper-name IndexnIteWMIontnQielaiesntDttenMnHoiv do you scorenon men and events?nFill in the blanks with the people Paul Johnsonnis referring to:n”The invasion [of Washington], one visitingnstatesman observed, was ‘lil