From the Ace of Spades HQ Sunday Morning Book Thread today:
My family had a set of Durant’s Story of Civilization series, and that was my secret weapon through high school history. I read the whole series a couple of times, and some volumes again and again. Great stuff.
It does show its age, though. Not just in the sense of being at odds with current intellectual fashions — that’s a feature, not a flaw — but (especially regarding the earlier periods) new discoveries have changed our understanding of what actually happened.It’s still worth reading, and I don’t know of a better introduction to the history of Western Civilization.
Posted by: Trimegistus at April 30, 2023 09:43 AM (QZxDR)
I might have mentioned, gentle reader, that I have begun to read this set, and it is likely to take me through the year and beyond. So I guess you won’t have 100 book reports to suffer through this year. But I’m making up for the content with the movie reports.
