Paul Johnson

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1. Paul Johnson

   Author of Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830, Art: A New History

2. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Discoverers, The Americans: The Colonial Experience, The Americans: The National Experience

3. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

4. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, A History of Warfare

5. Thomas Sowell

   Author of A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy, Migrations and Cultures: A World View

6. Russell Kirk

   Author of The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, The Roots of American Order

7. Joseph J. Ellis

   Author of Founding Brothers, His Excellency: George Washington, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

8. Will Durant

   Author of The Life of Greece, Our Oriental Heritage, The Age of Reason Begins

9. Fernand Braudel

   Author of The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2, The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3, Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800

10. Robert H. Bork

    Author of Slouching Towards Gomorrah, The Tempting of America

11. Harold Bloom

    Author of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, How to Read and Why, Genius : a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds

12. A. N. Wilson

    Author of The Victorians, Jesus : A Life, After the Victorians

13. Simon Schama

    Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, The Embarrassment of Riches, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother

14. Victor Davis Hanson

    Author of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power, The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny, Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think

15. William Manchester

    Author of A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940

16. Jacques Barzun

    Author of From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, The House of Intellect, A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works

17. Alan Dershowitz

    Author of The Case for Israel, Chutzpah

18. Allan Bloom

    Author of The Closing of the American Mind, Love and Friendship

19. F. A. Hayek

    Author of The Road to Serfdom, The Constitution of Liberty

20. Richard Brookhiser

    Author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, American, Gentleman Revolutionary : Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution