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The Struggle for Mastery in EuropeBook

by A. J. P. Taylor

Who uses, recommends or left The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Niall Ferguson
Historian; senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and author of The Ascent of Money and Doom.
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Taylor’s masterpiece is quite a dense read, and I wouldn’t recommend it, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe. That’s the book I most admire, but it’s probably the last thing to start with.

The Tim Ferriss Show, "Niall Ferguson, Historian — The Coming Cold War II, Visible and Invisible Geopolitics, Why Even Atheists Should Study Religion, Masters of Paradox, Fatherhood, Fear, and More (#634)"; on A. J. P. Taylor, their schoolboy hero; they say it is not where to start. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.

2022-11-16·tim.blog ↗

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