Ferguson is the author of more than a dozen major works of history, including "The Pity of War, Explaining World War I", "The Ascent of Money", "Empire, How Britain Made the Modern World", and we come now to today's topic, "Kissinger, the Idealist", the first volume of his two volume biography of Henry Kissinger, one of the most important figures of the first long Cold War. Before coming here to Stanford, he held posts at Oxford, Cambridge, New York University, Harvard, and the London School of Economics.
A fellow at the Hoover Institution, Niall Ferguson received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Oxford. Peter Robinson: Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson. Historian Niall Ferguson on Uncommon Knowledge now. Peter Robinson: Just how serious is the emerging conflict with China? It has already turned into Cold War II.
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