Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Stephen Kotkin: Three Historians Debate the Era of Trump
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The American experiment, begun almost 250 years ago, is it finally coming to an end or is it being renewed? Three of the most accomplished historians in the English-speaking world, Victor Davis Hanson, Sir Neil Ferguson, and Stephen Cotkin. Uncommon knowledge now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson.
All three of our guests today are fellows here at the Hoover Institution. A historian of Greece and Rome, Victor Davis Hansen has published more than 20 works of history, including his classic volume, A War Like No Other, How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, Victor's most recent book The End of Everything. A historian of the 19th and 20th centuries, Sir Neil Ferguson, has himself published more than 15 books, including his own classic, The Pity of War, Explaining World War I. Neil is now working on the second volume of his biography of Henry Kissinger.
A historian of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Asia, Stephen Kotkin, is the author yet again. of a pile of books, including Uncivil Society, 1989, and the implosion of the Communist Establishment. Stephen is now working on the third and final volume of his definitive biography of Joseph Stalin. Gentlemen, welcome. The Scale of Consequentiality, two quotations.
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