Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His books include bestsellers Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, and Colossus.
“(Ferguson) is at his strongest in his reading of the news. His story of what is happening today shows prescience, even if it is necessarily incomplete.” —The Economist.