![]() ![]() ![]() To revitalize history by unifying and humanizing the great body of historical Durant spent over forty years writing the critically acclaimed eleven-volume Story of Civilization, the later volumes with the help of his wife, Ariel. He sought He and his wife were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, and he was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Will Durant (1885–1981) was an award-winning American writer, historian, and philosopher. ![]() “Their gifts are accuracy, clarity, and the organization of a huge amount of material into a lively narrative.” The birth of Romanticism and the dawning of a new age ofĪctive democracy and a rising middle class, laying the foundation for a new Russia, his exile to Elba, his escape and reconquest of the throne, and his ultimate defeatĪt Waterloo by the combined forces of Europe Napoleon’s fall-his army’s destruction in the snows of Military student to emperor and commander of the largest army in history Napoleon’s meteoric rise-from provincial Corsican Saint-Just-all cut down by the reign of terror they inaugurated The revolution’s leaders Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, The French Revolution-from the storming of the Bastille to Wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy. The Age of Napoleon, the eleventh and final volume of the Story of Civilization, surveys the amazing chain of events that Civilization by Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant ![]()
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