num_pages: 156
description: Throughout their stellar careers, Will and Ariel Durant were often queried on what lessons history had to teach us. Their answers offer a unique window through which to better view the nature of man is brilliantly illuminated. The absolute best of these conversations have now been brought together in this volume, offering a profound insight into the Durant's lives, the creation of their greatest books and their own personal philosophy of life. The topics the Durants discuss are profoundly important today and represent the distilled wisdom of their more than half-century of scholarship in the history of the world and the ideas of man, including the lessons we can (and in some cases must) learn from history in the realms of: -Civilization -Earth -Biology -Race -Gender -Character -Morals -Religion -Government -Community -Time &amp; Space -Art -War -Freedom -Justice -Growth &amp; Decay -Progress -The meaning of history Also included are rare autobiographical insights into the Durant's personal life, revealed in profound and compelling dialogues in which they discuss with characteristic wit and fondness their early years together and the story of their love and marriage (which lasted 68 - until their deaths a mere two weeks apart in 1981), as well as the lessons learned from a life-long love affair with the world of ideas.
language: English
title: The Power of History
titlecomplete: The Power of History
genres: History
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Promethean Pr