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JOHNSON, PAUL C. Sierra Album.
Garden City Doubleday & Co. 1971 Hard Cover
240 pages, very well illustrated, map endpapers, cloth, dj, 8-1/2 by 11 inches, very good. From the dj: This is a story of a century of confrontation between man and the Sierra Nevada - 'the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains.' With these words, Paul C. Johnson begins this handsome pictorial account of the men and women who have found fortune and failure, renewed life and untimely death in the spectacular, snow-crested massif. The author's consistently entertaining and informative text records the colorful, often tumultuous history of the range. The Indians, the trappers and trail blazers, the lumberjacks and the prospectors are all portrayed at work, at leisure, and in the often inadvertent memorials they left. The camaraderie of the mining fields and the logging camps and the everyday life of the boom towns, along with the tragic landmarks of Donner Pass and the scars of the 'hydraulic monitor.'
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Johnson, Paul The Birth of the Modern. World Society 1815-1830.
New York Harpercollins 1991 006016574X / 9780060165741 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Xx, 1095 pages, cloth, DJ, very good. From Kirkus Reviews: A gargantuan panorama of the 15 transforming years immediately after the Napoleonic era, when ``peace came and immense new resources in finance, management, science and technology which were now available could be put to constructive purposes. '' Johnson (Intellectuals, 1989; A History of the Jews, 1987, etc. ) , a past editor of the New Statesman and the Spectator, is a master of vigorous narratives on epic topics. Astoundingly, he writes with fascination about events and movements in virtually all fields of human endeavor, whether the subjugation of Native Americans by Andrew Jackson, the scientific discoveries of Humphrey Davy, the compositions of Beethoven, the transparent innovations of George Stephenson and John McAdam, or such social phenomena as dueling, adultery, illegitimacy, and animal protectionism. He also throws an unexpected light on how artists and scientists formed a ``conjunction of minds'' by drawing on work in other fields (e. G. , how intuitive speculations by Coleridge and Shelley about atomic and electromagnetic theory inspired the experimental science of Davy and Michael Faraday). Johnson's narrative and analytical skills even compensate for many dubious passages when his conservatism leads him to stretch for parallels between 19th- and 20th-century politics--for example, when he sees the genesis of the US-British ``special relationship'' at a moment when both nations continued to be wary of the other's attention, or likens Romantic admirers of Napoleon such as Shelley, Hazlitt, and Byron to intellectuals enamored of Stalinism in the 1930's. Maddeningly long and highly opinionated, but a lively and readable history of a world ``exhilarated and sometimes bewildered by the rapid changes which were transforming it. '' FRN8-1 ; 1095 pages
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