For the first time ever, all the historians who have written world history textbooks for students or the general public since the beginning of Western civilization have been brought together. The goal: to ascertain the meaning they found in the whole human story. Perhaps some wrote to fulfill a contractual obligation, but most were concerned about the trajectory their society was following, and used history as a clue to find out. They then presented the whole story-arc of human life to us on a silver platter, and this book likewise presents the visions they brought forth in their writing. Nearing the end, in a conclusion Howard Bloom called "anthemic," what emerges is a scintillating philosophical justification for the human colonization of the solar system.
