In this readable autobiography by the authors of The Story of Civilization, Will and u0026 Ariel Durant celebrate and u0026 examine a lifetime of ideas, friendships, triumphs and u0026 love. The story of their life together, rich in anecdotes and u0026 with the countless famous people they knew, is a passionate record of their shared experience as lovers, as spouses, as world travelers and u0026 as the authors of one of the most famous successful works of scholarship in American literary history. Ariel and u0026 Will met and u0026 fell in love in 1912. He taught at New York’s anarchist Ferrer Center, a young man already in love with the world of ideas, who had quit seminary to his family’s chagrin in search of freedom. She was 14, so young that she roller-skated on her way to City Hall for her marriage, the daughter of penniless immigrants struggling to survive in the New World, inheritor of all the rebellious traditions and u0026 the determination to survive of the Russian ghetto from which her family came. Together they shared not only a burning love for each other but a hunger for ideas. Their book follows their intellectual journey, beginning with their interest in anarchism (which brought them close to Emma Goldman and u0026 Alexander Berkman) and u0026 going on thru a long, shared lifetime that brought them honors, fame and u0026 acquaintance with almost every major literary and u0026 intellectual personality in Europe and u0026 the USA. Their book is frank and u0026 moving, at once a star-studded history of the decades thru which they lived and u0026 worked and u0026 an intimate tribute to an enduring love.

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