He is an award-winning filmmaker, too, having won an International Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. He is the author of 16 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. Niall Ferguson ( MA, DPhil, FRSE, is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. The fatal mistake is to write history as if it were bound to happen the way it happened.” - Niall Ferguson These alternate worlds, these histories that didn’t happen, have to be alive in your mind when you are writing history.
There was a moment when a Soviet submarine commander gave the order to fire a nuclear torpedo at US naval surface ships, so we came within a hair’s breadth of World War III. That the Cuban Missile Crisis ended in both sides essentially backing down was not predetermined. “One of the things that’s exciting about the study of history is you are trying to remind yourself again and again that what happened, that what we know happened, might have gone the other way.
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