NIALL FERGUSON is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, and High Financier. He also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world.
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"[Ferguson] uses his powerful narrative talents in these pages to
give the reader a highly tactile sense of history. ... The author
[has a] knack for making long-ago events as vivid and visceral as
the evening news, for weaving anecdotes and small telling details
together with a wide-angled retrospective vision."--New York Times
"A dazzling history of Western ideas."--The Economist "Mr. Ferguson
tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the
felicitous phrase."--Wall Street Journal "[W]ritten with vitality
and verve... a tour de force."--Boston Globe "This is sharp. It
feels urgent. Ferguson, with a properly financially literate mind,
twists his knife with great literary brio...Ferguson ends by
suggesting the biggest threat is not China but ourselves - our
cowardice, drawn from ignorance, even stupidity, about our past. He
is right. But as he shows himself, that can be fixed."--The
Financial Times
"The author boldly takes on 600 years of world events... so that
the history lesson remains fresh and compelling... A richly
informed, accessible history lesson."--Kirkus (starred)
"[Ferguson] uses his powerful narrative talents in these pages to give the reader a highly tactile sense of history. ... The author [has a] knack for making long-ago events as vivid and visceral as the evening news, for weaving anecdotes and small telling details together with a wide-angled retrospective vision."--New York Times
"A dazzling history of Western ideas."--The Economist
"Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye
for the felicitous phrase."--Wall Street Journal "[W]ritten
with vitality and verve... a tour de force."--Boston Globe
"This is sharp. It feels urgent. Ferguson, with a properly
financially literate mind, twists his knife with great literary
brio...Ferguson ends by suggesting the biggest threat is not China
but ourselves - our cowardice, drawn from ignorance, even
stupidity, about our past. He is right. But as he shows himself,
that can be fixed."--The Financial Times
"The author boldly takes on 600 years of world events... so that
the history lesson remains fresh and compelling... A richly
informed, accessible history lesson."--Kirkus (starred)
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