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Yuval Noah Harari's history of everyone, ever In 2008, Yuval Noah Harari, a young historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, began to write a book derived from an undergraduate world-history class that he was teaching. Twenty lectures became twenty chapters. Harari, who had previously written about aspects of medieval and early-modern warfare - but whose intellectual appetite, since childhood, had been for all-encompassing accounts of the world - wrote in plain, short sentences that displayed no anxiety about the academic decorum of a study spanning hundreds of thousands of years. It was a history of everyone, ever. The book, published in Hebrew as "A Brief History of Humankind," became an Israeli best-seller; then, as "Sapiens," it became an international one. Readers were offered the vertiginous pleasure of acquiring apparent mastery of all human affairs - evolution, agriculture, economics - while watching their personal narratives, even their national narratives, shrink to a point of invisibility. President Barack Obama, speaking to CNN in 2016, compared the book to a visit he'd made to the pyramids of Giza.
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