Will and Ariel Durant's 1968 distillation of the historical patterns and lessons from their 11-volume Story of Civilization — covering geography, biology, race, character, morals, religion, economics, socialism, government, war, and the nature of progress.
Distills recurring historical patterns into digestible insights — the Durants' argument that history rhymes (not repeats) and their sweeping generalizations about civilizational cycles provide a framework for thinking about the long arc of human affairs.
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