Universal History and the Telos of Human Progress: How History is Made

This book is about vision. It goes through all of the world history books written from ancient times to the present to see what kind of meaning they ascribed to the human story as a whole. It analyzes the causes of our collective social progress, with the aim of restoring vitality to those countries of the Western world and beyond, which are experiencing demoralization and cultural malaise. What emerges is a scintillating philosophical justification for space exploration.

Voltaire, Toynbee, Durant, McNeill, Bentley and another 99 world historians and cultural heroes appear in this volume- so take a plunge into this circumnavigation of the arc of history, reviewed in the following way by some of the best thinkers in their fields:

“A guy named David Tamm down in Florida has written a terrific book on the history of global histories, and at the end, it has this whomping, stomping, amazing, incredible, anthemic conclusion. By the way, you can’t get this book in stores; he hasn’t gone to publishers with it yet. Tamm’s book says that humans need a goal. In fact, they need to be able to thrust themselves at a goal. They need to be able to fling themselves at a goal. They need to be able to march and dance toward a goal. That’s what rouses them in life. And Tamm is right. He is dead right. And his message is urgent. It’s what America needs right now. Desperately. We need a goal.”

-Howard Bloom (Founding board member: National Space Society, The International Paleopsychology Project, etc., author of Genius of the Beast, Global Brain, etc.): http://www.howardbloom.net

“I can think of no other book as comprehensive and ambitious as David Tamm's 'Universal History and the Telos of Human Progress'. This encyclopedic book is universal in its coverage of the major world historians from ancient to current times. It is an excellent manual on the historiography of universal historians as well as a careful reflection on the continued validity and future prospects of the idea of progress.”

-Professor Ricardo Duchesne (University of New Brunswick; author of The Uniqueness of Western Civilization)

“What a feat! A feat of intellect, humour and human ambitions.”

-Professor Andrzej Nowak (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; Editor of Arcana Magazine): http://www.portal.arcana.pl/