Jack Weatherford

Author, Professor

Jack McIver Weatherford is the former DeWitt Wallace Professor of anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is best known for his 2004 book, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. In 2006, he was awarded the Order of the Polar Star, Mongolia’s highest national honor for foreigners.

Books written by Jack Weatherford

• The History of Money
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World
• The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
• Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom