The Square and the Tower
Autor Niall Fergusonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 ian 2019
'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric Schmidt
Most history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares? Niall Ferguson, the international bestselling author ofEmpire, The Ascent of MoneyandCivilization, brilliantly recasts past and present as an unending contest between hierarchies and networks.
'Provocative, snappy, a rare book ... fasten your seatbelts' Peter Frankopan,Daily Telegraph
'Immensely stimulating, absorbing, illuminating ... sends ideas blazing all over the place ... one of the best popular historians of our time' David Goodhart,Prospect
'Powerful, fast-paced ... a pull-yourself-together warning to the present by way of arresting historical precedent' Andrew Anthony,Guardian
'Captivating and compelling' Jonathan A. Knee,The New York Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780735222939
ISBN-10: 0735222932
Pagini: 608
Dimensiuni: 141 x 213 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC
ISBN-10: 0735222932
Pagini: 608
Dimensiuni: 141 x 213 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC
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.