Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and De Gaulle (P.S.) - Softcover

Mr. Johnson is a clear, intelligent, forceful writer, and nothing if not thorough. (Wall Street Journal)

It is Johnson s gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would, indeed, recognize them instantly, while also illuminating what made them heroes. (Washington Post Book World)

Johnson frequetlty enlivens his witty, well-researched pages with chatty accounts of personal encounters with people as diverse as Princess Diana and Shelley Winters. (Library Journal)

A follow-up to Intellectuals and Creators addresses the subject of heroism as embodied by men and women from a variety of cultures and historic periods, profiling such diverse subjects as Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe, and Pope John Paul II. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.