This book’s full title is The Square and the Towner: Networks, Hierarchies, and the Struggle for Global Power. This is another great book by Niall Ferguson. I think that he has a unique view of how the world works. I think the most interesting comments from the book is about the printing press producing both religious conflict and also the Enlightenment.
If you notice by my reviews, I look at reviews by a number of people and also videos that I find. I think this provides an understanding of a book much better. Everyone sees the world differently. To read a review you often find ideas about a book that never occurred to you. Also seeing interviews of authors and hearing authors talk about their subject gives you a better understand and often present things in ways that give you a different and more broader understanding of what they wanted to convey in their books.
Andrew Anthony on The Guardian just tells us he finds this book confusing. There are good reviews on Good Reads. Some like the book and some have some criticisms of it. Jonathan A. Knee on the New York Times has an interesting review.
Niall Ferguson is interviewed at the Hoover Institution by Peter Robinson. Jason Howell interviews Niall Ferguson on TWiT Netcast Network. This is a short video, but not as good as the one by Hoover Institution. (There will be an ad to begin, but it can soon bypass it.) Quentin Hardy moderates a Google Talk with Niall Ferguson. Niall Ferguson speaks at Politics and Prose Book Shop and Coffee Shop.
An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.
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