Paul Johnson's Very Britty Socrates

Paul Johnson has written several concise biographies for general audiences about a wide array of landmark historic figures such as Churchill, Jesus, Napoleon and George Washington. In these minibiographies, he certainly has demonstrated a proven knack for distilling complex biographical issues into accessible stories of about 200 pages. And his latest successful biography, of the philosopher Socrates, is a further example of his narrative talents in bringing alive a rather obscure figure whom we all recognize but little understand from more than 2,400 years in the past.