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A General Theory Of Catastrophe — Niall Ferguson

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Death of a Child

When i was a tinager, it hit me that my grandfathers had fought in two immense wars. Nothing would cause me more agony than if one of my children, or more, were to die before me. So this idea of premature death struck me as a powerful and wanting thought. I became a historian partly to work out why that had happened.

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