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Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern AgeRead on Amazon

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

www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC0PQW
Dom Greco

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  • an abbreviated version of his highly acclaimed book series The Story of Civilization.
  • Durant formulated a tentative list of the figures from history he thought would be of interest and benefit to a modern audience. His list ranged from Confucius and Li Po to Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
  • average person to learn of achievements and lives of the greater men and women of history
  • expound on the profound significance of the poets, artists, statesmen, and philosophers that peopled the landscape of human history.
  • his final attempt at communicating his ethos of history as philosophy:
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