In the second half of his life, he made a spectacular political turn by supporting Lady Thatcher for Conservative leader and becoming a Tory himself, as well as becoming her advisor and speechwriter.
He then worked as a journalist and a man of the left until the ‘70s, rising to edit The Statesman. Johnson was born in 1928, lived through the poverty of the times, but received a Catholic education and went to Oxford. Since so much of elite education and public discourse in the last two generations reduces to contempt for intelligent patriotism, Johnson was both daring and ordinary, qualities required for success in a democracy. Much of his success must be due to the fact that almost no one else did. One could summarize his very popular work as a historian by saying that he largely followed the line suggested by Churchill in his sketch, The History of the English Speaking Peoples. Johnson earned this acknowledgment by championing the decent of modern politics of England and America-political liberty secured by empire and republic both. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006, the highest civilian distinction, and he was even honored in his native Britain, when, in 2016, the late Queen Elizabeth II made him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. His importance to conservatism is such that in America president George W. The English journalist and historian Paul Johnson has died.
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