The conclusion is that government has and continues to fail us: It is an education, a peek behind the scenes, a rollercoaster and an argument rolled into one bubbling and appealing package. The disasters he investigates cover the spectrum from war to pathogens, floods, earthquakes and in the end, planetary invasions. Too often, he finds midlevel managers at fault. In Doom, Niall Ferguson roams the world, history and even science fiction to examine disasters. “All disasters are at some level man-made political disasters, even if they originate with new pathogens.“ Discuss. His most recent book is The Square and the Tower: Networks on Power from the Freemasons to Facebook (2018). Ferguson is a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service as well as other honors. Civilization was also made into a documentary series. Other titles include Civilization: The West and the Rest, The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die and High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg.įerguson's six-part PBS television series, 'The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World,' based on his best-seller, won an International Emmy for best documentary in 2009. The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History. The author of 15 books, Ferguson is writing a life of Henry Kissinger, the first volume of which-Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist-was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and current senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and founder and managing director of advisory firm Greenmantle LLC. Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, former Laurence A.

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