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Title: The Lessons of History by William James Durant, Will Durant, Ariel Durant ISBN: 0-671-41333-3 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: August, 1968 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Profound insight into the nature of man.
Comment: This book was assigned reading for an MBA program I took in 1983.For the first time I was presented with the ideas that described how we fit in the universe along with why we behave as we do.I was in my late 30's , an engineer by trade.I knew the historical behavior patterns of our numerous societies over the spectrum of recorded history, yet had failed to reduce these observations to a lowest common denominator.
Will and Ariel Durant segment our history and nature into basic, simple to read chapters, that explain in simple terms how societies have strived to achieve the Utopias we all dream of.
I was stunned at how history repeats itself and humbled at the fact that "the foibles of mans dreams" are the same today as they were a thousand years ago.
If your ego has convinced you that solutions to the challenges of society are within the grasp of our lives today,don't read this book!
On the other hand,if you are prepared to recognize that our species is nothing more than 4000 years of recorded history compared with 14,000,000 years of evolutionary development,sit back and enjoy!
This is not a book for individuals who have "new PC ideas as to the nature of mankind".They will find that their ideas are same-o,same-o.
Will and Ariel summerize a huge work in one volume that can be read in a day.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but didn't meet expectations.
Comment: I am a great fan of Will Durant. I have read several of the volumes from the "Story of Civilization" series. This book is enjoyable, but lacks the insight and depth that his other books show. His conclusions are true, but not new.
Rating: 5
Summary: A once-in-a-lifetime foundation reading, get it used
Comment:
This is the first book that I discuss in my national security lecture on the literature relevant to strategy & force structure. It is a once-in-a-lifetime gem of a book that sums up their much larger ten volume collection which itself is brilliant but time consuming. This is the "executive briefing."
Geography matters. Inequality is natural. Famine, pestilence, and war are Nature's way of balancing the population.
Birth control (or not) has *strategic* implications (e.g. see Catholic strategy versus US and Russian neglect of its replenishment among the higher social and economic classes).
History is color-blind. Morality is strength. Worth saying again: morality is strength.
See my various lists. This book, John Lewis Gaddis on "The Landscape of History", and Stewart Brand "The Clock of the Long Now" are among my "top ten of all time".
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Title: Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant ISBN: 0671739166 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant ISBN: 0743235533 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren, Mortimer J. Adler ISBN: 0671212095 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 1972 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age by Will Durant ISBN: 0743226127 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 13 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: How to Speak, How to Listen by Mortimer Jerome Adler ISBN: 0684846470 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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