Colossus
The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
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- Published: 25 October 2012
- ISBN: 9780241958728
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 416
Colossus confirms Niall Ferguson's standing as one of the most incisive writers of history, politics and economics today
Sunday Telegraph
One of the timeliest and most topical books to have appeared in recent years
Literary Review
Yet another tour de force from a writer who displays all his usual gifts of forceful polemic, unconventional intelligence and elegant prose ... guaranteed to spark fierce debate
Irish Times
A bravura exploration of why Americans are not cut out to be imperialists but nonetheless have an empire. Vigorous, substantive, and worrying
Timothy Garton Ash