Niall Ferguson is one of the world's most renowned historians. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization, The Great Degeneration, Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, and The Square and the Tower. He is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His many awards 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).
“Magisterial….Like Mr. Kissinger or loathe him, this is a work of
engrossing scholarship.” – The Economist
“Mr. Ferguson offers a remarkably rich discussion of Mr.
Kissinger’s strategic thought and of how it took shape over time…
The book… is well worth reading as a corrective to harsher
historical judgments of Mr. Kissinger.” —Wall Street Journal
“If Kissinger’s official biographer cannot be accused of falling
for his subject’s justifiably famed charm, he certainly gives the
reader enough evidence to conclude that Henry Kissinger is one of
the greatest Americans in the history of the Republic, someone who
has been repulsively traduced over several decades and who deserved
to have defense of this comprehensiveness published years
ago….Niall Ferguson already has many important, scholarly and
controversial books to his credit. But if the second volume
of “Kissinger” is anywhere near as comprehensive, well written and
riveting as the first, this will be his masterpiece.” —Andrew
Roberts, The New York Times Book Review
Combine careful and extensive scholarship, clear writing, and a
magnificent subject and you get Niall Ferguson on Kissinger, a
genuinely educational read.”-George P. Schultz, 60th U.S. Secretary
of State
“When an accomplished historian writes about one of the world’s
great diplomats, the results are sure to be a masterpiece -- and
that is exactly how to describe Niall Ferguson’s epic on Henry
Kissinger.”-James A. Baker, III, 61st U.S. Secretary of State
“This is a terrific biography, and a must read for understanding
the evolution of one of the most important and compelling
architects of American foreign policy of our age.”-Condoleezza
Rice, Former Secretary of State and Denning Professor in Global
Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of
Business
“With all that’s been written about Kissinger over so many years,
you might think that there’d be little new to say. Think again.
Niall Ferguson's Kissinger: The Idealist shifts the trajectory of
Kissinger studies fundamentally. Always thorough, often surprising,
at times deeply moving, this is an extraordinary biography of the
most significant scholar-statesman-strategist of our time, by one
of our most accomplished historians. Not to be missed.”-John Lewis
Gaddis, Yale University
“Ferguson’s biography will be a classic. This is a story of an
influential, complex, and shrewd historical figure set in the
context of the drama of America and the world in the mid-20th
Century. Ferguson’s research is fresh and revealing, his writing is
pleasure to read, and his insights are sharp and
thought-provoking.”-Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Deputy Secretary of
State, Former President of the World Bank, and U.S. Trade
Representative
"Fresh and imaginative, this carefully researched biography reads
like a novel. Under Niall Ferguson’s skilled pen, Kissinger the
public colossus becomes Henry the boy and man. A wonderful
read!”-Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University Distinguished Service
Professor and author of Is the American Century Over?
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