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The Lessons of History
by Will and Ariel Durant
Rating: 4/10
Summary
- As the authors finished their 10 volume masterpiece of "The Story of Civilization" they reread it and distilled all that knowledge into a roughly hundred page book.
- Their argument is that most of human history repeats itself and if you could learn a dozen or so ideas then you'll see them across history many times.
Notes
- I felt that the book was way too distilled and too information dense to be able to be understood easily and the writing was kind of weird, I really wanted to like this book and even the cover art and the general idea of the book is great but I just couldn't get into it.