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The Pity of War
Niall Ferguson ISBN 9780140275230
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Niall Ferguson ISBN 9780140275230
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This book by Niall Ferguson has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-11-08 and the most recent from 2022-11-16. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson explodes the myths of 1914-18. He argues that the fatal conflict between Britain and Germany was far from inevitable. It was Britain's declaration of war that needlessly turned a continental conflict into a world war, and it was Britain's economic mismanagement and military inferiority that necessitated American involvement, forever altering the global balance of power. Ferguson vividly brings back to life one of the seminal catastrophes of the century, not through a dry citation of chronological chapter and verse, but through a series of chapters that answer the key questions: Why did the war start?
“He's the author of 16 books, good Lord, that's a lot of books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization, and Kissinger”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Niall Ferguson: Historian, Hoover Institution senior fellow, author of 16 books (including Kissinger, Civilization, and Doom), and founder of advisory firm Greenmantle. Historian Niall Ferguson argues we've already entered Cold War II with China, with Taiwan as the new Cuba-style flashpoint.
“This argument was central to my book the pity of war i i also did an essay in virtual history about this”— guest
The guest here is Niall Ferguson: Scottish-American historian and author of 16 books on money, power, war, and empire; formerly at Harvard, now at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a co-founder of the University of Austin. Historian Niall Ferguson on launching a free-speech university, the evolution of money and crypto, counterfactual world wars, COVID leadership, and the meaning of life.
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