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From British empire to American colossus

Ferguson has been hailed as "The most brilliant British historian of his generation" by the London Times. The Wall Street Journal has praised his "scrupulous scholarship." He is a Professor at Harvard and Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His book Empire is an International Best Seller. Google gives him 140,000 entries on the Internet. He was named by Time magazine as "one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Ferguson is a public intellectual." So, important people read him. Before becoming famous or infamous as an historian he was quite well known as a journalist for the right-wing British tabloid Daily Mail and the "respectable!' British Tory Daily Telegraph. So this review is not about any commentator, but about an influential scribe for the Right. What follows here is about the chain of thoughts of a very literate, plausible and persuasive and influential Scot that led him from an approving account of the British Empire to recommend that the United States should take over the former British "White Man's Burden" to the benefit of us all and particularly of the Developing World (i.e. former colonies). At the same time he is oddly unsure that President George W. Bush and other ruling Americans are totally convinced of this need!