It is Johnsons gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would...recognize them instantly, while also illuminating what made them heroes. --Washington Post Book World on HeroesJohnson is a clear, intelligent, forceful writer, and nothing if not thorough. --Wall Street JournalPaul Johnson, the acclaimed author of Creators, Heroes, and the New York Times bestseller Intellectuals, returns with a captivating collection of biographical portraits of the Western worlds greatest wits and humorists. With chapters dedicated to historys sharpest tongues and most piercing pens, including Benjamin Franklin, Toulouse-Lautrec, G.K. Chesterton, Damon Runyan, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, and many more, Johnsons Humorists is an exciting compendium of our most enduring comical and satirical innovators.