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Heroes of History

By: Will Durant
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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 At Will Durant's death at 96, in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses. Twenty years later, scholar John Little discovered the previously unknown manuscript of Heroes of History in Durant's granddaughter's garage. Written shortly before he died, these 21 essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant's best-selling, 11-volume series, The Story of Civilization. Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from Confucius to Shakespeare, from the Roman Empire to the Reformation, spanning thousands of years of human history. A volume of life-enhancing wit and wisdom, Heroes of History draws upon Durant's expansive knowledge and singular ability to translate distant events and complex ideas into easily accessible principles.©2001 John Little, Monica Ariel Mihell, and William James Durant Easton (P)2003 The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. Civilisation History Philosophy World Middle Ages Nonfiction Ancient History Ancient Greece
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Essential knowledge acquisition. Fast paced journey through history. A good starting point for any early starter to history.

a good history

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reading this litany of religious sequence ending with some philosophy was a little bit boring and somewhat soporific. clearly will Durant was a historian of his times. books like sapiens or big history are a much bigger and better take on not just a list of what occurred but some reasoning behind why.

I've read some other books from Durant and my views on his writing have not been changed to a great degree by this book. I appreciate he is trying to cover a lot of historical figures but it would have been so much better had he thought about why he picked those figures and why those figures mattered.

Religion reigns supreme

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