Niall Ferguson

The Square and the Tower

Ferguson describes the book as a response to limitations in his earlier treatment of networks. In his preface, he connects the central question to work on Henry Kissinger and distinguishes a broad synthesis of other scholars’ research from his own preliminary analysis of Kissinger’s relationships.

Author’s own account in the preface; no independent verification of the project’s origins or of the earlier books is claimed. · lines 423–429