The Three Historians: Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Three of the most accomplished historians of our time. Or any time. Neil Ferguson, Victor Davis Hansen, and Andrew Roberts. On uncommon knowledge now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson.
A native of Glasgow, Sir Neil Ferguson holds BA and D Phil degrees in history from Modlin College, Oxford. Now a fellow at the Hoover Institution here at Stanford, Sir Neil has published well over a dozen major works of history, from his classic study of the First World War, The Pity of War, to Doom, The Politics of Catastrophe. He is currently working. Or so we are led to believe. On his second volume of his life of Henry Kissinger. You are at work on it, are you not? When when not being interviewed by you, Peter.
The classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hansen grew up on a ranch in the San Joaquin Valley of California, then earned his undergraduate degree at UC Santa Cruz. and his doctorate in classics right here at Stanford University. Currently again a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Professor Hansen. Is himself the author of more than a dozen major works of history.
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