
Heroes of History
At Will Durant''s death in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses. Twenty years later, scholar John Little discovered the previously unknown manuscript of Heroes of History in Durant''s granddaughter''s garage. Written shortly before he died, these twenty-one essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant''s bestselling, eleven-volume series, The...
At Will Durant''s death in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses. Twenty years later, scholar John Little discovered the previously unknown manuscript of Heroes of History in Durant''s granddaughter''s garage. Written shortly before he died, these twenty-one essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant''s bestselling, eleven-volume series, The...