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Pankaj Mishra: Niall Ferguson’s Burden, 3 November 2011
Civilisation: The West and the Rest
by Niall Ferguson.
Allen Lane, 402 pp., £25, March 2011,978 1 84614 273 4 Show More
by Niall Ferguson.
Allen Lane, 402 pp., £25, March 2011,
“... Buchanan is nervous about other upstarts rising out of nowhere to challenge the master race. Scott Fitzgerald based Goddard, at least partly, on Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, the author of the bestseller The Rising Tide of Color against White World Supremacy (1920). Stoddard’s fame was a sign of his times, of the overheated racial climate of the early 20th ... ”