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portada Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780393609196
Edition No.
1
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Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

James Grant (Author) · W. W. Norton & Company · Hardcover

Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian - James Grant

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Synopsis "Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian "

The definitive biography of one of the most brilliant and influential financial minds―banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist.During the upheavals of 2007–09, 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, the still-canonical guide to stopping a run on the banks, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that―decades later―inspired the radical responses to the world’s worst financial crises.Born in the small market town of Langport, just after the Panic of 1825 swept across England, Bagehot followed in his father’s footsteps and took a position at the local family bank―but his influence on financial matters would soon spread far beyond the county of Somerset. Persuasive and precocious, he came to hold sway in political circles, making high-profile friends, including William Gladstone―and enemies, such as Lord Overstone and Benjamin Disraeli. As a prolific essayist on wide-ranging topics, Bagehot won the admiration of Matthew Arnold and Woodrow Wilson, and delighted in paradox. He was also a misogynist, and while he opposed slavery, he misjudged Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. As editor of the Economist, he offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day, and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column. He has been called "the Greatest Victorian."In James Grant’s colorful and groundbreaking biography, Bagehot appears as both an ornament to his own age and a muse to our own. Drawing on a wealth of historical documents, correspondence, and publications, Grant paints a vivid portrait of the banker and his world.

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