Bagehot

✍ Scribed by James Grant

• Book ID: 100107106
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0393609197

✦ Synopsis

The definitive biography of a banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian.

During the upheavals of 2007- 9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that--decades later--inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial crises.

In James Grant's colorful and groundbreaking biography, Bagehot appears as both an ornament to his own age and a muse to our own. Brilliant and precocious, he was influential in political circles, making high- profile friends, including William Gladstone-- and enemies: Lord Overstone, Benjamin Disraeli. As an essayist on wide- ranging topics, he won the admiration of Matthew Arnold and Woodrow Wilson. He was also a misogynist, and while he opposed slavery, he...