Niall Ferguson, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, From the Freemasons to Facebook, Penguin Books Limited, Delhi, 2017 , pp 608.

Abstract

In the early 1930s, a Jewish man gleefully staring at Der Stürmer, a Nazi propaganda rag baffled his friends. His friends inquired: “Why are you enjoying it so much?” He answers, “if you read Jewish papers, the news is terrible. But, according to this, the news is all good. We control the banks, we control the country and we run the whole world!” Such has been the fate of the Jewish community and especially of the Rothschild Family. A fate which has been marred with hate and envy, which perpetuated itself as a point of discourse and corny theory. Deciphering and de-bunking these theories, Niall Ferguson, through his writings allows readers an alternative and academic perspective. One can string a common thread in the masterful writing of Nial Ferguson as he covers expansive ground citing examples to evidence that networks have existed ever since humanity has. From the structure of the brain to the food chain, from the family tree to freemasonry