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Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s foremost historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the managing director of Greenmantle, LLC. He is the author of sixteen books. His awards include the International Emmy for Best Documentary, the Benja.
Niall Ferguson has 80 books on Goodreads with 242680 ratings. Niall Ferguson’s most popular book is The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World.
Ferguson has written and presented numerous television documentary series, including The Ascent of Money, which won an International Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2009. In 2024 he was knighted by King Charles III for services to literature. Ferguson has been a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television and a columnist for Newsweek.
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. The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History.
Oct 30, 2012 · Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors.
He is the author of sixteen books. His awards include the International Emmy for Best Documentary, the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service, and the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award.
Oct 27, 2009 · In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a trade war, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, with his signature clarity and expert lens.
Oct 30, 2007 · THE WAR OF THE WORLD. Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson’s numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history’s bloodiest by far?
Complete order of Niall Ferguson books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
In his sweeping, synthetic, engaging book, Doom, master historian Niall Ferguson explains why not and offers a path forward for better, safer, and saner responses the next time we face catastrophe.” —Nicholas A. Christakis
