Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
Autor Niall Fergusonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mar 2009
'One of the timeliest and most topical books to have appeared in recent years'Literary Review
'Yet another tour de force from a writer who displays all his usual gifts of forceful polemic, unconventional intelligence and elegant prose ... guaranteed to spark fierce debate'Irish Times
'A bravura exploration of why Americans are not cut out to be imperialists but nonetheless have an empire. Vigorous, substantive, and worrying' Timothy Garton Ash
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141017006
ISBN-10: 0141017007
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141017007
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Niall
Fergusonis
one
of
Britain's
most
renowned
historians.
He
is
the
Milbank
Family
Senior
Fellow
at
the
Hoover
Institution,
Stanford
University,
a
senior
faculty
fellow
of
the
Belfer
Center
for
Science
and
International
Affairs
at
Harvard,
and
a
visiting
professor
at
Tsinghua
University,
Beijing.
He
is
the
author
of
fifteen
books,
includingThe
Pity
of
War,The
House
of
Rothschild,Empire,CivilizationandKissinger,
1923-1968:
The
Idealist,
which
won
the
Council
on
Foreign
Relations
Arthur
Ross
Prize.
He
is
an
award-making
filmmaker,
too,
having
won
an
international
Emmy
for
his
PBS
seriesThe
Ascent
of
Money.
His
many
other
prizes
include
the
Benjamin
Franklin
Prize
for
Public
Service
(2010),
the
Hayek
Prize
for
Lifetime
Achievement
(2012)
and
the
Ludwig
Erhard
Prize
for
Economic
Journalism
(2013).
He
was
named
Columnist
of
the
Year
at
the
2018
British
Press
Awards.
Recenzii
Colossus
confirms
Niall
Ferguson's
standing
as
one
of
the
most
incisive
writers
of
history,
politics
and
economics
today
One of the timeliest and most topical books to have appeared in recent years
Yet another tour de force from a writer who displays all his usual gifts of forceful polemic, unconventional intelligence and elegant prose ... guaranteed to spark fierce debate
A bravura exploration of why Americans are not cut out to be imperialists but nonetheless have an empire. Vigorous, substantive, and worrying
One of the timeliest and most topical books to have appeared in recent years
Yet another tour de force from a writer who displays all his usual gifts of forceful polemic, unconventional intelligence and elegant prose ... guaranteed to spark fierce debate
A bravura exploration of why Americans are not cut out to be imperialists but nonetheless have an empire. Vigorous, substantive, and worrying