The Nation That Fell To Earth

By Niall Ferguson Sunday, Sep. 03, 2006

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> A SECOND OPINION Despite some setbacks, the Bush Administration's response to 9/11 will prove to be the right one, argues Max Boot (see page 44)

> By 2031, Niall Ferguson may have retired as the Laurence A. Tisch professor of history at Harvard University and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford. His latest book, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, has just been published by Penguin Press.

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