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Durant began writing a series of small pamphlets for his students, explaining the great philosophers in plain English. He later pitched a book to major publishers. The response? Uniform rejection. Publishers insisted that "academic philosophy doesn't sell."

That urgency is exclusive to his era—and terrifyingly mirrored in our own. story of philosophy by will durant exclusive

Durant wrote during the Great Depression, the rise of fascism, and the shadow of atomic war. He was not a dispassionate historian; he was a man trying to save civilization from itself. He believed that if the average citizen understood the history of human thought, they would be less likely to fall for demagogues and dictators. Durant began writing a series of small pamphlets

And that is the exclusive secret of Will Durant’s masterpiece: It turns readers into philosophers. the rise of fascism