Most of the way through Book 1 of Will Dutton's "A History of Civilization." I stole it. It's an ancient audiobook transcribed off tape. It's also abridged. Think I will pay for the next one. Kinda weird hearing Gandhi described contrmporaneously. Weirder still to think that as I progress through the books, the author will experience 40 years... And WWII, Korea, the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Airlift, McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Vietnam and Nixon. Dude stops the Middle East at the Ottoman Empire and talks about how one day China will be a thriving industrial power... From an era before Chaing Kai Chek.
I searched for Will Dutton's "A History of Civilization" and the first thing that comes up on Duck-Duck-Go for me is this Hubski thread. Your comment isn't even half an hour old. That's crazy fast. No results for that exact book though. I'll have to see if I still have it, cause if I do it's probably in a box tucked away somewhere, but I have a book that is a collection of sermons during the time of American Revolutionary War. It's really interesting to read both sides of the argument, independence vs. being loyal to Britian, from a religious perspective in the words of the people who were living at the time.