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History

by Hendrik Willem van Loon · read by JOHN RIDDLE · 36 min

Hendrik Willem van Loon opens with the stuffy front parlors of Holland, kept shut and full of the past, and uses them to ask what we do with history. He sets two sayings above it.

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Hendrik Willem van Loon opens with the stuffy front parlors of Holland, kept shut and full of the past, and uses them to ask what we do with history. He sets two sayings above it. Cicero: not to know what happened before you were born is to remain a child. Henry Ford: history is bunk. This essay comes from Civilization in the United States, a 1922 collection edited by Harold Stearns. Read by JOHN RIDDLE in thirty-six minutes.

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Length: 36 min
Narration: Solo narrator
Format: Unabridged audiobook
Released: August 2026
Publisher: Academy Voices
Language: English
ISBN: 9798182618694

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