9780141017006 COLOSSUS: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN EN FRANCE

Contatti: info@only10.it Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire Niall Ferguson Dettagli Editore: Penguin (2 giugno 2005) Lingua: Inglese ISBN-10: 0141017007 ISBN-13: 9780141017006 Peso: 299 gr. Descrizione Recensione Colossus confirms Niall Ferguson's standing as one of the most incisive writers of history, politics and economics today (Sunday Telegraph)One of the timeliest and most topical books to have appeared in recent years (Literary Review)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 (Irish Times)A bravura exploration of why Americans are not cut out to be imperialists but nonetheless have an empire. Vigorous, substantive, and worrying (Timothy Garton Ash) L'autore Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. 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 and The Great Degeneration. His Kissinger, a feature-length film based on his interviews with Henry Kissinger, won the 2011 New York Film Festival prize for best documentary. His many other prizes and 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). Pagamenti