The Winds of Time is a mesmerizing narrative of civilization's journey written with keen insight by Rich DiSilvio.
Each chapter centers around a major figure-often including several secondary figures-and the effects they each had on the world. One reads not only about Jesus Christ and Saint Paul but also Roman Emperors Augustus and Constantine, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, the great figures of the Renaissance such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Filippo Brunelleschi, explorers Christopher Columbus and Vasco Da Gama, the fathers of America George Washington, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, the great inventors Thomas Edison, Marconi, Volta and political thinkers and statesmen Machiavelli, Karl Marx, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, and many, many more.
DiSilvio is a fervent scholar of the past with a refreshing outlook rooted in common sense and practical analysis. He successfully debunks the current trend today among some scholars of negating the profound influence of ancient Rome, Renaissance Italy, Elizabethan England and Colonial America.
DiSilvio provides us with creative dialogue among history's most famous participants to add perspective to his exhaustive research. What makes "The Winds of Time" an amazing work is that history is presented without distillation. We read glories and foibles; dark and bright moments, quite often dependent upon each other.
He reminds us how intense rivalry between nations often led to great achievements in commerce, art and literature, language and laws, architecture and engineering, etc... How pacifist nations fell not necessarily under the marching feet of warring neighbors but rather from complacency, a lack of ingenuity and invention among its people. Not all great societies began as purely noble undertakings. But that should not diminish the great gifts these societies have given to the world.
As a journalist, I found "The Winds of Time" a riveting work of historical scholarship. The reader comes away marinated in the richness of Western civilization. DiSilvio's research and creative touches turn what often is a droll exercise by narrow minded scholars into what history is and ought to be... The Winds of Time is a great story. - Truby Chiaviello, Publisher of Primo magazine
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