What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? This is a whole new way of looking at the world.
Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is a Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire and Colossus, he also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly successful television documentary series for Channel Four- Empire, American Colossus and, most recently, The War of the World. He, his wife and three children divide their time between the United Kingdom and the United States.
Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided
it
*Eric Schmidt*
Niall Ferguson writes big, muscular books with high-concept ideas
that target current concerns through the prism of the past. They
are pull-yourself-together warnings to the present by way of
arresting historical precedent... Ferguson's breadth of learning is
impressive
*Guardian*
This is an immensely stimulating historical tour d'horizon...an
absorbing Cook's tour of the past combined with an illuminating
polemic about the current digital revolution.
*Standpoint*
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