Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
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Sean Barrett
From the bestselling and award-winning author of ‘An English Affair’, a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century.
John Maynard Keynes saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and instructed Western industrialised states on how to protect themselves from revolutionary unrest, economic instability, high unemployment and social dissolution. In the wake of the recent global financial crisis, economists worldwide have once again turned to his ideas to confront their problems.
In this entertaining and edifying new biography, Richard Davenport-Hines introduces the man behind the economics; a connoisseur, intellectual, economist, administrator and statesman who was equally at ease socialising with the Bloomsbury Group as he was when influencing the policies of Presidents.
By exploring the desires and experiences that made Keynes think as he did, or compelled him to innovate, Davenport-Hines reveals the aesthetic basis of Keynesian economics, and explores why this Great Briton’s ideas continue to instruct and encourage us seventy years after his death.
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"Davenport-Hines is a wonderfully crisp and funny writer." (Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday)
"A gifted author at the very top of his form." (David Kynaston, History Today)
"Davenport-Hines is a perceptive social historian who intelligently integrates great lives and great loves with great events." (Ian Finlayson, The Times)
"An impressive work of scholarship and as absorbing as a first-rate novel." (Selina Hastings, Sunday Telegraph)
"The masterly Richard Davenport-Hines." (Hugo Vickers, Country Life)
"An astonishing book, of meticulous research, which allows us to know, in painful detail, the men and women of that [Titanic] voyage...Davenport-Hines finds a new and heart-breaking story to tell." (Julian Fellowes)
"Davenport-Hines has a good eye for riveting details...powerfully original...a considerable moral as well as historical achievement." (Anne Chisholm, Times Literary Supplement)