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Heroes of History

De : Will Durant
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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. Philosophie
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    In this work, Will Durant discusses, in more or less in chronological order, the lives and deeds of various historical figures, from Antiquity to Elizabethan England, from Confucius to Francis Bacon.

    The approach is shamelessly traditional, very little being said of the economic, social or cultural context applicable to each.

    Mr. Durant is also old-style in being very affirmative, no room being given to doubt or explicit hypothesis, even for the most ancient matters.

    There are few links from one chapter to the next and no explanation is given to justify the choice of figures that was made.

    Sadly, the result is thus more akin to storytelling than to history per se. It may be of interest to children or young teen-agers who are yet to be introduced to the world’s complexity.

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