DOOM
The Politics of
Catastrophe
NIALL FERGUSON
Review by Author Roy Murry
This profound history
of every disaster you know or think you know - from wars, volcanoes, famines to
plagues. Mr. Ferguson writes the story's factors one would not think existed.
The depth of each disaster's background is disturbing and not in any history books printed about those events I have read. I am 73 years old and have read much history.
In Niall Ferguson's written words, "the central point of this book - that all disasters are at some level man-made political disasters, even if they originate with new pathogens." His explanations of those horrendous events in history bring the reader to the present day.
While living in lockdown, he proposes why the Asian Flu 1957-1958 is similar to the COVID 2020 and shows the political and network differences at the beginning of the events. In some of his detail, the reader will agree with, some not.
However, his arguments are worth reading if you have an Inquisitive Mind - One of my top 10 reads of my life.
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