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To: koan who wrote (46742)2/17/2014 1:48:24 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 69300
 
I loved Durant's writing. I think he must have tried to copy the tact and rhetoric of those great Greek orators such as Demosthenes and Thucydides "quoting" Pericles!



One of my proudest first book sets was the 11 volume "Story of Civilization". I read it over and over and dipped into it many times. They were an amazing team and it was their synergy that made them together a part of history. Not surprisingly they died a week apart...