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Will & Ariel Durant
Will Durant [1895-1981]
Ariel Durant [1898-1981]
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"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
"Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization
if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change."
"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."
"To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy."
"For in modern states the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things;
and the men who can manage money manage all."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
— Will Durant [1885-1981]
"If you want the present and the future to be different from the past, Spinoza tells us, study the past.
Find out the causes that made it what it was and bring different causes to bear."
— The Durants {Will and Ariel Durant}
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Will and Ariel Durant were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "Rousseau and Revolution" [1967], the 10th volume of "The Story of Civilization"
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Major Works
"The Story of Philosophy" [1926]
 | "The Story of Philosophy: The Lives & Opinions of The Greater Philosophers" [1926 bestseller] by Will & Ariel Durant chapters/subjects include: Plato & Socrates, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza & Descartes, Voltaire & Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Benedetto Croce, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, William James, and John Dewey book entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital [7/2012] for $8.00 Pocket mass pb [2/91] for $8.72 Touchstone 8¼x5¼ pb [rev 10/89] for $10.88 Simon & Schuster 9x6½ hardcover [2009] out of print/used Blackstone UNABR audio CD [10/2010] 19½ hours for $30.36 |
"The Story of Civilization" [1935-1975]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization
"Our Oriental Heritage" [Simon & Schuster 1935]
"The Life of Greece" [Simon & Schuster 1939]
"Caesar and Christ" [Simon & Schuster 1944]
"The Age of Faith" [Simon & Schuster 1950]
"The Renaissance" [Simon & Schuster 1953]
"The Reformation" [Simon & Schuster 1957]
"The Age of Reason Begins" [Simon & Schuster 1961]
"The Age of Louis XIV" [Simon & Schuster 1963]
"The Age of Voltaire" [Simon & Schuster 1965]
 | "The Story of Civilization, Volume IX: The Age of Voltaire" [1965] A History of Civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with Special Emphasis on The Conflict Between Religion and Philosophy book entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster [6/2011] for $14.99 Simon & Schuster 9½x7 hardcover [12/80] out of print/used Simon & Schuster hardcover [1965] out of print/used Audible Audiobook CD read by Grover Gardner [5/2015] for $34.96 Blackstone Audio MP-3 CD read by Grover Gardner [6/2015] for $35.06 |
the 10th volume: "Rousseau and Revolution" [Simon & Schuster 1967]
for "Rousseau and Revolution", the 10th volume of "The Story of Civilization," Will and Ariel Durant were awarded the Pulitzer Prize
the 11th volume: "The Age of Napoleon" [Simon & Schuster 1975]
"The Complete Story of Civilization" 11-volume set [1963]
Simon & Schuster Book Club hardcover set [1963] starting at $119
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"The Complete Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Reason Begins, The Age of Louis XIV, The Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolu-tion, Age of Napoleon" for Kindle [2014]
13,973-page Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster [1/2014] for $99.99 {sic} |
"The Lessons of History" [Simon & Schuster 1968]
Audio CD Unabridged, May 7, 2001 Will Durant (Author), Ariel Durant (Author), Russ Holcomb (Narrator)
"Lessons" tape
"Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization From Ancient Times To The Dawn of The Modern Age"
[Simon & Schuster 2001] copyrighted by John Little and the Estate of Will Durant
Other Works
it is obvious that Ariel worked on every one of Will's books, so this page sees no reason to specify the sporadic 'with Ariel' credit
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list of content by Will Durant online at WikiSource
"Philosophy and The Social Problem" [Macmillan 1917]
"Little Blue Books" [1922-59] written by Will Durant
Young philosopher Will Durant, PhD wrote a series of booklets for Haldeman-Julius Co. and their "Little Blue Book" series;
the total series included over 1900 booklets of 60/64 or 96 pages, which sold millions of copies for the price of a dime or a nickel;
some were even given away free with Bull Durham Tobacco.
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"Nietzsche: Who He Was and What He Stood For (Little Blue Book, No. 19)" [1924]
Little Blue Book booklet #19 [1924] out of print/scarce Little Blue Book booklet #19 [1924] out of print/scarce "The Story of Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy (Little Blue Book, No. 19)" [1927] Little Blue Book booklet #19 [1927] out of print/scarce "The Story of Aristotle's Philosophy (Little Blue Book, No. 39)" [1923] Little Blue Book booklet #39 [8/00] out of print/scarce available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive "A Guide To Aristotle (Ten Cent Pocket Series, No. 39)" [1923] LBB #39 is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive "A Guide To Plato (Little Blue Book, No. 159)" [1922] B08M6CML9Y Kindle Edition from Autumn Innovations [2/2014] for $8.24 Literary Licensing 9x6 booklet [10/2011] for $21.95 "The Story of Francis Bacon's Philosophy (Little Blue Book, No. 443)" [1923] "Are We Machines? Is Life Mechanical or Is It 'Something Else'? A Debate Between Clarence Darrow and Will Durant (Little Blue Book, No. 509)" [1927 & 1945] Little Blue Book booklet #509 [1945] out of print/scarce LBB #509 is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive "Voltaire and The French Enlightenment (Little Blue Book, No. 512)" [1924] Little Blue Book booklet #512 [1924] out of print/scarce LBB #512 is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive "A Guide To Spinoza (Little Blue Book, No. 520)" [1924] Little Blue Book booklet #520 [1924] out of print/scarce "The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (Little Blue Book, No. 641)" [1924] LBB #641 is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive "A Guide To Schopenhauer (Little Blue Book, No. 700)" [1924] Kessinger Publng 9x6 pb [9/2010] for $15.96 Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [9/2010] for $27.96 "The Story of Schopenhauer's Philosophy (Little Blue Book, No. 700)" [1927] Little Blue Book booklet [1927] out of print/scarce "The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer (Little Blue Book, No. 772)" [1925] Little Blue Book booklet [1925] out of print/scarce LBB #772 is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive "Contemporary European Philosophers: Bergson, Croce, and Bertrand Russell (L.B.B. No. 802)" [1925] LBB #802 is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive "Contemporary American Philosophers: Santayana, James, and Dewey (Little Blue Book, No. 813)" [1925] Little Blue Book booklet [1925] out of print/scarce Little Blue Book booklet [1925] out of print/scarce "Anatole France: The Man and His Work (Little Blue Book, No. 839)" [1925] Little Blue Book booklet [1925] out of print/scarce Little Blue Book booklet [1925] out of print/scarce LBB #839 is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive |
these are not yet posted to the pages of the subjects/topics
"Transition" [Simon & Schuster 1927]
"The Mansions of Philosophy" [Simon & Schuster 1929]
- later with slight revisions re-published as "The Pleasures of Philosophy"
Will Durant's list of "One Hundred 'Best' Books For An Education"
first published in The American Magazine issue CVIII (Dec 1929)
and republished in "The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time" [Simon & Schuster, 2002]
available as online .PDF file copied from Internet Archive
"The Case For India" [Simon & Schuster 1930]
"A Program For America" [Simon & Schuster 1931]
"Adventures In Genius" [Simon & Schuster 1931]
"Great Men of Literature" - taken from "Adventures In Genius" [Garden City Publng 1931]
"The Tragedy of Russia: Impressions From A Brief Visit" [Simon & Schuster 1933]
"The Foundations of Civilisation" [Simon & Schuster 1936]
"The Pleasures of Philosophy" [Simon & Schuster 1953]
"Interpretations of Life" [Simon & Schuster 1970]
"A Dual Autobiography" [Simon & Schuster 1977]
"The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time" [Simon & Schuster 2002]
"An Invitation To Philosophy: Essays and Talks On The Love of Wisdom" [Promethean Press 2003]
"Adventures In Philosophy" [Promethean Press 2008]
"Fallen Leaves" [Simon & Schuster 2014]
Stageplays, Movies, Other Media
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Will Durant's credits {1948-1987} at Internet Movie Database IMDb lists no credits for Ariel Durant
"Ship's Reporter" TV series [WJZ-TV New York City 1948-52]
Will was interviewed in a 1950 episode
"Samuel Bronston's "The Fall of The Roman Empire" [Rank U.K./Paramount Pictures 1964]
Will is credited as 'consultant'
"Reds" [Paramount Dec 1981]
  | A radical combination of historical drama and actual history. The interspersed interviews with then-still-living witnesses to the story of American journalist and Bolshevik activist John Reed [1887-1920] give a resonance beyond any previous movie about the Russian revolutionary era. Truly an epic film Produced & co-written & directed by and starring Warren Beatty; cinematography by Vittorio Storaro; also starring Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson & Maureen Stapleton; filmed witnesses include Henry Miller & Will Durant; won Oscars for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actress {MS}; nominated for 9 more; won DGA, WGA, two BAFTA Awards Paramount color DVD [10/2006] for $14.99 Paramount color VHS [1/2002] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used BMG soundtrack CD [4/99] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
"My Philosophy" video short [1987] /tt0309892/
A dramatic reading by Jeff Pomerantz of charlatan L. Ron Hubbard's essay "My Philosophy", accompanied by a photo montage
"Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War and God" 1 h 13 min [2017] dFallenLeaves2017-W&ADurant.jpg
DirectorsJohn Little, StarringWill Durant, Ariel Durant
http://www.amazon.com/Fallen-Leaves-Last-Words-Life/dp/B074N95F5C/ on prime
unrelated to the book of similar title
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7542194/
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these are readings of chapters/topics from "The Story of Civilization" by Alexander Adams (aka Grover Gardner) on YouTube;
the entries do not specify which book they belong with, that research will take place soon
Volume 2: "Will Durant - Socrates"
listen to audio recording [10/2016 upload, 25:53] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 2: "Will Durant - The Philosophy of Plato"
listen to audio recording [11/2014 upload, 1:50:11] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 3: "Will Durant - Hannibal Against Rome, 264-202 BCE"
listen to audio recording [7/2017 upload, 45:48] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 3: "Will Durant - Julius Caesar (100-44 BC)"
listen to audio recording [7/2016 upload, 1:42:11] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 3: "Will Durant - The Life of Jesus"
listen to audio recording [5/2015 upload, 57:03] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 3: "Will Durant - Nero (3768 AD)"
listen to audio recording [9/2016 upload, 33:30] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 3: "Will Durant - Gaius Caesar / Caligula (3741 AD)"
listen to audio recording [9/2016 upload, 11:53] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 3: "Will Durant - Why Rome Fell"
listen to audio recording [9/2016 upload, 17:46] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 4?: "Will Durant - St. Augustine [354-430]"
listen to audio recording [5/2017 upload, 43:59] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 4: "Will Durant - Muhammad and The Qur'an"
listen to audio recording [3/2017 upload, 1:32:42] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 5: "Will Durant - Leonardo da Vinci"
listen to audio recording [6/2015 upload, 1:18:57] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 6: "Will Durant - The Jews, 1300-1564"
listen to audio recording [8/2019 upload, 1:19:56] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 6: "Will Durant - John Calvin (150964)"
listen to audio recording [8/2016 upload, 1:28:08] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 7: "Will Durant - The Life of William Shakespeare"
listen to audio recording [7/2016 upload, 1:12:05] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 7: "Will Durant - Richelieu (1585-1642)"
listen to audio recording [11/2017 upload, 1:01:07] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 10: "Will Durant - The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant"
listen to audio recording [11/2014 upload, 1:30:17] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 10: "Will Durant - Goethe"
listen to audio recording [1/2018 upload, 3:16:16] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 11: "Will Durant - German Philosophy, 1789-1815 (Fichte, Schelling & Hegel)"
listen to audio recording [5/2015 upload, 1:17:44] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Volume 11: "Will Durant - Napoleon The Man"
listen to audio recording [5/2017 upload, 2:20:48] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
listen to audio recording [/ upload, ] online at YouTube's Rocky C Channel
Works About Will & Ariel Durant
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Friends & Family
John Little was/is executor of the Estate of Will Durant
he produced several books from archival material, and at least one film
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1064259/
L i n k s
The Will Durant Foundation [est. 2001]
browse books at the Will Durant Store {over 200 titles} at Amazon
http://www.willdurant.net/ The Will Durant Timeline Project
DURANT (WILL & ARIEL) B/L: 1403 No. Gardner St; 213/876-2741 (11/96)
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Durant Motors, Inc. [1921-32]
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