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A stupendous achievement, a triumph of historical research and imagination. --Robert Skidelsky, The New York Review of Books Niall Ferguson's brilliant and altogether enthralling two-volume family saga proves that academic historians can still tell great stories that the rest of us want to read. --The New York Times Book Review Superb ... An impressive ... account of the Rothschilds and their role in history. --Boston Globe

A stupendous achievement, a triumph of historical research and imagination. -Robert Skidelsky, <i>The New York Review of Books Niall Ferguson's brilliant and altogether enthralling two-volume family saga proves that academic historians can still tell great stories that the rest of us want to read. -<i>The New York Times Book Review Superb ... An impressive ... account of the Rothschilds and their role in history. -<i>Boston Globe</i><i>

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Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968- The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes 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). He was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards.

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