Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
English language
Published Dec. 24, 2017 by Penguin Books, Limited.
The Square and Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power is a book by Niall Ferguson, published in 2018 by Penguin Books, where he explains how those at the top of the towers of power have been overstated, and the influence of "the social networks down below, in the town squares" has been underestimated. His aim is to highlight and correct this historical oversight. In The Daily Telegraph, historian Peter Frankopan described the book as "provocative". In Prospect, David Goodhart called the book "immensely stimulating, absorbing, illuminating ... sends ideas blazing all over the place".
Very, very good, except for the quite boring beginning and quite strange rant at the end, veering away from the otherwise very balanced account of historical events, allowing for different research and interpretations
