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Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age

door Will Durant

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At Will Durant's death 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 twenty-one essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant's bestselling, eleven-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.

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Durant's 'heroes' of history are far from perfect. In most cases, their flaws exceed their virtues. But there is no doubt they were all influential. What I find most interesting is that in times of crisis, someone invariably arises who provides a pivot point that shifts the flow of history one way or another. Someone who has been pushed too far and who has the necessary combination of ideas, personality, and circumstances, ends up being a catalyst for change, sometimes good, sometimes not so good. The individuals are both a consequence of events and a catalyst for them. It's the wider events, though, that I find most interesting, and the same types of things seem to recur throughout human civilization.

Let me just provide a brief quote from the book (page 125 on the Roman Revolution of 133 B.C.) that describes one such repeating motif.

...in every civilization and in almost every generation, the natural inequality of economic ability, and the popular institution of inheritance, had produced an increasing concentration of wealth... Periodically such concentration is challenged by social unrest, sometimes by revolution.

Sound familiar? This kind of situation has arisen time and again since the dawn of recorded history. Sadly, we still haven't discovered a way to prevent it. ( )
  DLMorrese | Oct 14, 2016 |
I loved reading this book.

2500 years in very broad and bright brush strokes. People, places, events, ideas forming the tapestry mostly of Western civilization.

Each image merging with the previous and the next.

History and story are not too rigorously distinguished. The book is not footnoted, but the Heroes of History are made to present their coloring of their time and make known our indebtedness to them.

Plus the joy of well crafted phrasing placed here and there throughout.

A very nice finale Mr Durant. ( )
2 stem richardbsmith | May 7, 2010 |
A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age. ( )
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  Tutter | Feb 20, 2015 |
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To all those who seek to see their lives in total perspective;
who eschew dogma and prejudice and who desire the wisdom
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At Will Durant's death 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 twenty-one essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant's bestselling, eleven-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.

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