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Author Grant, James, 1946- author.

Title Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian / James Grant.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B BAGEHOT    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B BAGEHOT, WALTER    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B BAGEHOT    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG BAGEHOT, WALTER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description pages cm
Summary "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 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: "With devouring fury" -- "Large, wild, fiery, black" -- "In mirth and refutation; in ridicule and laughter" -- "Vive la guillotine" -- The literary banker -- "The ruin inflicted on innocent creditors" -- "The young gentleman out of Miss Austen's novels" -- A death in India -- The "problem" of W.E. Gladstone -- "Therefore, we entirely approve" -- "The muddy slime of Bagehot's crotchets and heresies" -- The great scrum of reform -- A loser by seven bought votes -- By "influence and corruption" -- "In the first rank" -- Never a bullish word -- Government bears the cost -- "I wonder what my eminence is?"
Subject Bagehot, Walter, 1826-1877.
Economist (London, England : 1843) -- History.
Bankers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Essayists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901.
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Bagehot, Walter, 1826-1877. (OCoLC)fst00037165
Bankers. (OCoLC)fst00826798
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Essayists. (OCoLC)fst00915436
Journalists. (OCoLC)fst00984188
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1800-1901
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
ISBN 9780393609196 (hardcover)
0393609197
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