Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

Author: James Grant

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0393609200

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“Excellent… and written in a gripping style.” —The Economist During the upheavals of 2007–09, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of one Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, and inventor of the Treasury bill, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that—decades later—inspired the radical responses to the world’s worst financial crises. Persuasive and precocious, he was also the esteemed editor of the Economist. He offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day, held sway in political circles, made as many high-profile friends as enemies, and won the admiration of Matthew Arnold and Woodrow Wilson. Drawing on a wealth of historical documents, correspondence, and publications, James Grant paints a vivid portrait of the banker and his world.

The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot
The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot

Author: Frank Prochaska

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0300195540

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The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one

The English Constitution
The English Constitution

Author: Walter Bagehot

Publisher:

Published: 1872

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13:

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A classic study of the British constitution, paying special attention to how Parliament and the monarchy work. The author frequently draws comparisons with the American Constitution, being generally critical of the American system of government.

The English Constitution
The English Constitution

Author: Walter Bagehot

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 1867

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution-a Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the object is in constant change. An historical writer does not feel this difficulty: he deals only with the past; he can say definitely, the Constitution worked in such and such a manner in the year at which he begins, and in a manner in such and such respects different in the year at which he ends; he begins with a definite point of time and ends with one also. But a contemporary writer who tries to paint what is before him is puzzled and a perplexed: what he sees is changing daily. He must paint it as it stood at some one time, or else he will be putting side by side in his representations things which never were contemporaneous in reality.