Heroes of History – Will Durant
General Information
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Title: Heroes of History
Author: Will Durant
Read By: Grover Gardner
Copyright: 2001
Genre: Historical
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Book Description
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In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization
and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant
here traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization-
, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world.
Four years before his death, Will Durant began work on an abbreviated
version of his highly acclaimed eleven-volume series, The Story of Civilization-
. The project was conceived as a series of audio lectures, but Durant
soon realized that the dialogues could be developed into a book that
would serve as a wonderfully readable introduction to the subject of
history.
Durant completed twenty-one of a proposed twenty-three chapters before
his death in 1981, at the age of ninety-six. Those chapters span thousands
of years of human history — from Confucius to Shakespeare, from the
Roman Empire to the Reformation, finally ending in the eighteenth century.
The manuscript was recently found by Will Durant scholar John Little
— twenty years after Durant finished it — and its discovery is a major
event, not only for lovers of his prose, but for students of history
and philosophy the world over.
Heroes of History is a book of life-enhancing wisdom and optimism, complete
with Durant’s wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events and
ideas in simple, exciting terms. It is the lessons of our heritage passed
on for the edification and benefit of future generations — a fitting
legacy from America’s most beloved historian and philosopher.
Will Durant’s popularity as America’s favorite teacher of history and
philosophy remains undiminished by time. His books are accessible to
readers of every kind, and his unique ability to compress complicated
ideas and events into a few pages without ever "talking down" to the
reader, enhanced by his memorable wit and a razor-sharp judgment about
men and their motives, made all of his books huge bestsellers. Heroes
of History carries on this tradition of making scholarship and philosophy
understandable to the general reader, and making them good reading,
as well.
At the dawn of a new millennium and the beginning of a new century,
nothing could be more appropriate than this brilliant book that examines
the meaning of human civilization and history and draws from the experience
of the past the lessons we need to know to put the future into context
and live in confidence, rather than fear and ignorance.
Will Durant’s work is marked by his own special quality as a writer
— he is tough-minded, optimistic, courageous, and convinced that without
a knowledge of the past there is no wisdom to guide us to the future.
Heroes of History was his last word on the subject, and much of it has
been aimed directly at the doubts and fears of people today. It is a
major, and unexpected, literary and historical event.
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