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

Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

James Grant

368 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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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-canonica...

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