My long-time friend, Niall Ferguson, actually Sir Niall Ferguson, is a brilliant scholar, author, and journalist. He’s arguably the world’s top historian, measured not only by what he has to say, what he knows, what he’s researched and covered in his extensive writings, but also by how he says it. Niall is a superstar expositor of the past, present, and our likely future, whether via a BBC documentary, a book, an interview, and everything in between. I’ll let his bio convey his major accomplishments. But, to me, Niall is just my buddy I met at the Bank of England in 1998 when we were both serving as Houblon Norman Fellows and trying to find the potty at the The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. The Bank crammed us in a small office with three huge desks, with no standing room except in front of a saving grace -- a blackboard. The rest is history.
My advice: Order all of Niall’s books and read one a month. Once started, they can’t be set down. Below is the list. Next, subscribe to Naill’s substack: niallferguson.substack.com/ But, most important, visit
https://www.niallferguson.com/
to access all of Niall’s latest writings, interviews, podcasts, and more.
Niall’s Books
His major books include:
Paper and Iron (1995)
The House of Rothschild, Vol. I (1998)
The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild (1998)
The House of Rothschild, Vol. II (1999)
The Pity of War (1998)
Virtual History (editor, 1997)
The Cash Nexus (2001)
Empire (2003)
Colossus (2004)
1914 (2004)
The War of the World (2006)
The Ascent of Money (2008)
High Financier (2010)
Civilization: The West and the Rest (2011)
The Great Degeneration (2012)
Kissinger: 1923–1968: The Idealist (2015)
The Square and the Tower (2017)
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (2021)
Niall’s Wiki Bio
Sir Niall Campbell Fergusonis a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.[2][3] Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020.
Ferguson writes and lectures on international history, economic history, financial history, and the history of the British Empire and American imperialism. He holds positive views concerning the British Empire.In 2004, he was one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 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. He began writing a semi-monthly column for Bloomberg Opinion in June 2020 and has also been a regular columnist at The Spectator and the Daily Mail.In 2021, he became a joint-founder of the new University of Austin.Since June 2024, he is a bi-weekly columnist at The Free Press. Ferguson has also contributed articles to many journals including Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. He has been described as a conservative and called himself a supporter of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
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