{"product_id":"bagehot-9780393609196","title":"Bagehot","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe definitive biography of a banker, essayist and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most perceptive and brilliant economic and political writer of his time deserves a biographer of equal literary merit. In James Grant, Walter Bagehot has found him.\" -- Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England and author of The End of Alchemy\u003cbr\u003e\"James Grant [is] one of the most influential contemporary commentators on Wall Street... in Grant’s hands, Bagehot’s life and career provide a superb prism through which to observe the extraordinary revolution in the British economy during the 19th century.\" -- Simon Nixon - The Times\u003cbr\u003e\"The book makes a convincing case that Bagehot deserves credit for being a progenitor of a wider political tradition...\" -- Moneyweek\u003cbr\u003e\"A gem of a book: entertaining, wry, and gloriously eccentric.\" -- Sebastian Mallaby - Foreign Affairs\u003cbr\u003e\"... excellent... biography\" -- Benjamin Schwarz - The International New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"... engaging new biography of Bagehot... In this very enjoyable book, Grant demonstrates that he has the measure of a fascinating—and great—Victorian. \" -- Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\"... his [James Grant's] book is excellent—built on a lot of study (including time in the archives) and written in a gripping style. Mr Grant is at his best when writing about Bagehot’s financial journalism and indeed his career as a banker. His accounts of the collapse of Overend Gurney, supposedly the Rock of Gibraltar of Victorian finance, and of “Lombard Street”, Bagehot’s book about that debacle, are exemplary.\" -- The Economist","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864549241175,"sku":"9780393609196","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393609196.jpg?v=1722272426","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bagehot-9780393609196","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}