The Lessons of History

By Will Durant, Ariel Durant

Categories: History

What can thousands of years of history teach us about human nature, war, government, religion, and progress? Drawing on a lifetime of research, Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant distilled their answers into this short book. Moving between great lives, big ideas, and cycles of war and conquest, the Durants look at what history shows about humanity's possibilities and its limits.

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• Shane Parrish: “A concise book of lessons drawn from the survey of history. The book comes highly recommended by someone I met at the Berkshire Hathaway meeting last weekend. I can’t believe I haven’t read this before. I’ll be re-reading this a few times and I’ve started listening to the audio version in the car as well”