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By (author) NIALL FERGUSON; By (author) Ferguson, Niall
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Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, this book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. This title reveals, is an empire running on empty, weakened by chronic defecits of money, manpower and political will.
Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush mayhave denied it but, as Niall Ferguson”s brilliant and provocative bookshows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time.What”s more, it always has been an empire, expanding westwardsthroughout the nineteenth century and rising to global dominance in thetwentieth. But is today”s American colossus really equipped to playAtlas, bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders? The UnitedStates, Ferguson reveals, is an empire running on empty, weakened bychronic defecits of money, manpower and political will. When the NewRome falls, he warns, its collapse may come from within.
”One of the timeliest and most topical books to have appeared in recent years”Literary Review
”Yetanother tour de force from a writer who displays all his usual gifts offorceful polemic, unconventional intelligence and elegant prose …guaranteed to spark fierce debate”Irish Times
”A bravuraexploration of why Americans are not cut out to be imperialists butnonetheless have an empire. Vigorous, substantive, and worrying”Timothy Garton Ash
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Colossus confirms Niall Ferguson”s standing as one of the most incisive writers of history, politics and economics today
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One of the timeliest and most topical books to have appeared in recent years
Review quote
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
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A bravura exploration of why Americans are not cut out to be imperialists but nonetheless have an empire. Vigorous, substantive, and worrying
Biographical note
Niall Ferguson is 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, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 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 series The 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.
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