The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
β Scribed by Zachary D. Carter
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0525509038
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β¦ Synopsis
**"An important, resonant, and memorable portrait" (Jon Meacham) of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the transformative ideas that outlived him
"A brilliantly wrought, beautifully written life of one of the most captivating intellects of the twentieth century." --Liaquat Ahamed, author of Lords of Finance
**
At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law's motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history. Swept away from his placid home at Cambridge University by the currents of the conflict, Keynes found himself thrust into the halls of European treasuries to arrange emergency loans and packed off to America to negotiate the terms of economic combat. The terror and anxiety unleashed by the war would transform him from a comfortable obscurity into the most influential and controversial intellectual of...
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