The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

This is my fourth Note on one of Will Durant's books. We're systematically walking through the five books of his I read in a week after I first discovered him five decades into my life. Durant was a national treasure, a philosopher turned historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Story of Civilization, which he wrote with his wife, Ariel, to whom he was married for SIXTY-EIGHT years. This book celebrates the mountain peaks of human greatness, from his list of the ten greatest thinkers to his hundred best books for an education. (Out of those 100 books, I've read a measly FIVE. Hah.) If you want to study the best of humanity so you can activate the best within YOU, I highly recommend it. Big Ideas we explore include Heroes, The Greatest Thinkers, An Hour a Day, Progress, and It's Day 1.