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...LESSONS OF HISTORY by Will and Ariel Durant. 117 pages. Simon & Schuster...
When the tenth and final volume of their massive The Story of Civilization appeared last year, Historians Will (82) and Ariel (70) Durant promised readers one last postlude volume distilling the observations and conclusions of their 40-odd years of scholarship...
...editorial appeared, the Columbia University campus erupted in student protest. Over 500 Columbia undergraduates gathered on the library steps when the Trustees expelled two faculty members, and the renowned American history professor Charles A. Beard resigned in sympathy. The crowd was harangued by a former philosophy instructor named Durant...
...Among the other Pulitzer winners: William Styron, the fiction prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner; George F. Kennan, the biography award for Memoirs: 1925-1950; Will and Ariel Durant, the general nonfiction laurels for the tenth and final volume of The Story of Civilization...
ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This tenth and last volume of their 38-year labor, The Story of Civilization, is one more proof that the Durants are the most eminently readable historians around...