Title: Terrific but full of typos and inaccuracies
Product review: Johnson's "Modern Times" was, in the opinion of Richard Nixon and plenty of other people worth listening to, the best nonfiction book of the Eighties. It sold an amazing 6 million copies.The rest of his books, while always interesting, aren't in that class, but then, what is?His History of the American People is lively and sweeping, with lots of fascinating idiosyncratic looks at entertainment and the arts. The problem is that the proofreading and fact-checking are shameful. Johnson is getting on in years, so he's making more minor mistakes. Since this book was a guaranteed best seller, the publisher should have hired some starving American History Ph.D. to read the manuscript and fix all the little faith-sapping things wrong with it.
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