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Last Words on Life, Love, War & God
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Will Durant
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The final and most personal work from Pulitzer Prize - winning author and historian Will Durant - discovered 32 years after his death - is a message of insight for everyone who has sought meaning in life or the council of a wise friend in navigating life's journey.
From 1968 to 1978, Will Durant made four public allusions to the existence of Fallen Leaves. One, in 1975, hinted at its contents: "a not very serious book that answers the questions of what I think about government, life, death, and God." And in 1975: "I propose... to answer all the important questions, simply, fairly, and imperfectly." Even into his 90s,he worked on the book daily, writing it out on legal notepads. Upon his death in 1981, no one, not even the Durant heirs, knew if he had completed it, or even if it still existed. Thirty-two years later, in a granddaughter's attic trunk, the manuscript was discovered.
Fallen Leaves is Will Durant's most personal book. It is precisely as he described: 22 short chapters on everything from youth and old age, religion and morals, to sex, war, politics, and art. The culmination of Durant's 60-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of a gifted scholar with a renowned talent for rendering the insights of the past accessible. In its preface Durant mentions that over the course of his career, he received letters from "curious readers who have challenged me to speak my mind on the timelessquestions of human life and fate." With Fallen Leaves, he accepted their challenge. It contains strong opinions, elegant prose, and deep insights into the human condition as only Will Durant could provide, as well as his revealing conclusions about the perennial problems and greatest joys we face as a species.
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- De: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rand's life, they reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor.
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Explains Everything Of Today
- De L. Nicholson en 11-20-15
De: Ayn Rand, y otros
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The Year of Our Lord 1943
- Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
- De: Alan Jacobs
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear the Allies would win the Second World War. Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic thought the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not culturally or morally prepared for their success. These Christian intellectuals - Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil, among others - sought both to articulate a sober and reflective critique of their own culture and to outline a plan for the moral and spiritual regeneration of their countries in the post-war world.
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The Audible is a Train Wreck
- De John en 09-04-18
De: Alan Jacobs
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: John Little
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history. Here is a summation of Durant's work, as he presents the best of world history. Filled with Durant's renowned wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events in simple and exciting terms, it is a concise liberal arts education.
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Puzzled
- De James en 04-06-04
De: Will Durant
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Suicide of the West
- How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
- De: Jonah Goldberg
- Narrado por: Jonah Goldberg
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
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Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind’s destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle.
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Put some gratitude in your attitude
- De Amazon Customer en 04-25-18
De: Jonah Goldberg
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Our Oriental Heritage
- The Story of Civilization, Volume 1
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 50 h y 17 m
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The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Wonderful
- De Michael en 11-30-13
De: Will Durant
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The Cave and the Light
- Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 25 h y 26 m
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The Cave and the Light reveals how two Greek philosophers became the twin fountainheads of Western culture, and how their rivalry gave Western civilization its unique dynamism down to the present.
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All of Western Philosphy Leads to Ayn Rand?!?
- De Leslie en 06-22-15
De: Arthur Herman
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The Spiritual Teachings of Seneca
- Ancient Philosophy for Modern Wisdom
- De: Mark Forstater, Victoria Radin
- Narrado por: David Troughton, Louisa Millwood Haig
- Duración: 1 h y 36 m
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Seneca was dedicated to Stoicism, and in his essays and letters he explained the stoic position on many fundamental issues: pleasure and the problem of desire, happiness, and contentment; anger, fear, living in the present, how to think for yourself, anxiety and tranquillity, goodness, freedom, trusting the universe; courage, opportunity, cruelty and how to deal with it, friendship, love and trust, death and how to live, learning , chance and fate, time, aspirations, wisdom - and more.
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Odd presentation style
- De Mark en 08-03-08
De: Mark Forstater, y otros
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Healing the Soul of America - 20th Anniversary Edition
- De: Marianne Williamson
- Narrado por: Marianne Williamson
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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Now updated with a new introduction by number-one New York Times best-selling author Marianne Williamson, the 20th anniversary edition of Healing the Soul of America shares her timeless, visionary message of political healing. This is a time, according to Williamson, for Americans to return once again to our first principles, both politically and spiritually. Here, Williamson draws plans to transform the American political consciousness and encourage powerful citizen involvement to heal our society.
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Marianne for president!
- De Gina Pagano Rose en 02-19-19
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America's Real War
- De: Rabbi Daniel Lapin
- Narrado por: Rabbi Daniel Lapin
- Duración: 3 h y 39 m
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There is a tug of war going on for the future of America. At one end of the rope are those who think America is a secular nation; at the other end are those who believe religion is at the root of our country's foundation. In this audio release of the thought-provoking America's Real War, renowned leader and speaker Rabbi Daniel Lapin encourages America to reembrace the Judeo-Christian values on which our nation was founded and logically demonstrates why those values are crucial to America's strength in the new millennium.
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I really enjoyed the thoughts and information.
- De Anonymous User en 05-28-19
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Why We Are Restless
- On the Modern Quest for Contentment
- De: Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change - even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a profound and beautiful reflection on the roots of this malaise and examine how we might begin to cure ourselves.
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Good primer.
- De Chris en 09-29-21
De: Benjamin Storey, y otros
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: John Little
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Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history. Here is a summation of Durant's work, as he presents the best of world history. Filled with Durant's renowned wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events in simple and exciting terms, it is a concise liberal arts education.
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Puzzled
- De James en 04-06-04
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Heroes of History
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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At Will Durant's death at 96, 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 21 essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant's best-selling, 11-volume series, The Story of Civilization.
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Nice overview
- De Richard en 11-10-04
De: Will Durant
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The Lessons of History
- De: Will, Ariel Durant
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful 11-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and Ariel Durant share the vital and profound lessons of our collective past. Their perspective, gained after a lifetime of thinking and writing about the history of humankind, is an invaluable resource for us today.
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This is a must for every Educated Person
- De BradleyBurr en 10-29-07
De: Will, y otros
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The Story of Philosophy
- The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 19 h y 27 m
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Durant lucidly describes the philosophical systems of such world-famous “monarchs of the mind” as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, and Nietzsche. Along with their ideas, he offers their flesh-and-blood biographies, placing their thoughts within their own time and place and elucidating their influence on our modern intellectual heritage. This book is packed with wisdom and wit.
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Fantastic and insightful book
- De ESK en 01-25-13
De: Will Durant
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Our Oriental Heritage
- The Story of Civilization, Volume 1
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Robin Field
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The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Wonderful
- De Michael en 11-30-13
De: Will Durant
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The Story of Philosophy
- The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Graham Dunlop
- Duración: 21 h y 18 m
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The Story of Philosophy is a captivating intellectual journey that explores the evolution of human thought and the enduring legacy of great thinkers throughout history. Written by the renowned author Will Durant, this monumental work provides listeners with a comprehensive overview of the world's philosophical traditions, from ancient Greece to the modern era.
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: John Little
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Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history. Here is a summation of Durant's work, as he presents the best of world history. Filled with Durant's renowned wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events in simple and exciting terms, it is a concise liberal arts education.
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Puzzled
- De James en 04-06-04
De: Will Durant
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Heroes of History
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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At Will Durant's death at 96, 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 21 essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant's best-selling, 11-volume series, The Story of Civilization.
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Nice overview
- De Richard en 11-10-04
De: Will Durant
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The Lessons of History
- De: Will, Ariel Durant
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful 11-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and Ariel Durant share the vital and profound lessons of our collective past. Their perspective, gained after a lifetime of thinking and writing about the history of humankind, is an invaluable resource for us today.
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This is a must for every Educated Person
- De BradleyBurr en 10-29-07
De: Will, y otros
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The Story of Philosophy
- The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 19 h y 27 m
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Durant lucidly describes the philosophical systems of such world-famous “monarchs of the mind” as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, and Nietzsche. Along with their ideas, he offers their flesh-and-blood biographies, placing their thoughts within their own time and place and elucidating their influence on our modern intellectual heritage. This book is packed with wisdom and wit.
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Fantastic and insightful book
- De ESK en 01-25-13
De: Will Durant
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Our Oriental Heritage
- The Story of Civilization, Volume 1
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 50 h y 17 m
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The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Wonderful
- De Michael en 11-30-13
De: Will Durant
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The Story of Philosophy
- The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Graham Dunlop
- Duración: 21 h y 18 m
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The Story of Philosophy is a captivating intellectual journey that explores the evolution of human thought and the enduring legacy of great thinkers throughout history. Written by the renowned author Will Durant, this monumental work provides listeners with a comprehensive overview of the world's philosophical traditions, from ancient Greece to the modern era.
De: Will Durant
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- 02-11-16
Mixed Feelings
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Durant's prose is still refreshing and enjoyable; however, his thoughts are incomplete and often contradictory.
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- 09-25-20
Pearls of insight
All great thinkers had ideas that seem hopelessly naive and childish from hindsight, and Durant is no different in this regard. But on the whole, his ideas are clear, forceful and distill the intelligence of all civilization into a wondrous perfume to wisdom.
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- louis
- 06-17-21
Eloquent, Educational, Passionate
loved it. Eloquent, Educational, Passionate. one can only wish more authors now days displayed a similar character
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- Gregor
- 03-19-23
Old Man Yells at Cloud
There’s a lot of food for thought here. But whiffs of eugenics and nativist sentiments ruined it for me.
The narrator is first rate.
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- Derick
- 09-27-16
Answering everything, simply, fairly & imperfectly
If you could sum up Fallen Leaves in three words, what would they be?
Enlightened, cathartic, elegant
What did you like best about this story?
Classic Will Durant. You don't have to agree with him to truly respect his views on life and society. He's wonderfully self-aware and balanced in his approach. Nothing too groundbreaking, especially if you're familiar with The Story of Philosophy, but it’s great to hear the summation of the lessons he’s learned in life. I’ll certainly come back and listen again.
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- Salvador Nava
- 12-14-20
Quintessential wisdom of a life long-lived!
I'm afraid I have to disagree with some of what Mr. Durant says, but all in all, wisdom from academia, historical study, and a life long-lived permeates the pages of his book!!
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- RJA
- 09-20-21
Excellent
I had never read/listened to a Durant book. This book was excellent. His writing promotes thought and insight into many areas of life/society even today. The narration is excellent.
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- Jason
- 11-28-20
Sweeping generalizations galore
Presents many opinions as fact, with weak arguments. Entertaining, if not old fashioned and at times sexist.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-04-22
Can't go wrong with Will Durant
Great narration and presentation of one of America's most brilliant and gifted writers. No one else has such a witty and powerful delivery and his breadth of knowledge is unparalleled. I'll listen to this again and again.
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- João Cordeiro
- 01-12-24
A great overview of life, love, war and god
I truly recommend this book to anyone who’s looking for a deeper look into these subjects. One of my favorite for sure
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