George Siehl’s Reviews > The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook > Status Update

Ferguson continues to provide examples of the complex interplay between hierarchy and network at various scales. The Soviets both crushing internal networks and encouraging them among impressionable Cambridge students who formed an important spy ring for Russia. In the US he notes the role of the FBI tapping Martin Luther King's phone. In southern Asia a British networked army beat a communist insurgency.