Universal Man The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
Universal Man The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
- ISBN 13:
9780465060672
- ISBN 10:
0465060676
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 05/12/2015
- Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary
In Universal Man, acclaimed historian Richard Davenport-Hines offers the first biography of Keynes that reveals the man in full. Like many Englishmen of his class and era, Keynes compartmentalized his life. Accordingly, Davenport-Hines treats Keynes in turn as a youthful prodigy, a powerful government official, an influential public man, a bisexual living in the shadow of Oscar Wilde's persecution, a devotee of the arts, and an international statesman of worldwide renown. Delving into Keynes's experiences and thought, Davenport-Hines shows us a man who was equally at ease socializing with the Bloomsbury Group as he was persuading heads of state to adopt his policies. Through Davenport-Hines' nuanced portrait, we come to understand not just the most enduringly influential economist of the modern era, but one of the most gifted and vital men of our times: a disciplined logician with a capacity for glee who persuaded people, seduced them, subverted old ideas, and installed new ones.
Engaging, learned, and sparkling with wit and insight, Universal Man is the perfect match for its brilliant subject.