PositiveThe Financial TimesWhere should Walter Bagehot stand in the pantheon of political and economic thinkers? In one sense the legacy of this 19th-century monetary and political theorist is underwhelming ... Yet GM Young, pre-eminent historian of Victorian England, called Bagehot the greatest Victorian. Clearly there is a paradox here and James Grant in his engaging new biography of Bagehot...goes a long way towards explaining it ... In this very enjoyable book, Grant demonstrates that he has the measure of a fascinating — and great — Victorian.
William L Silber
PositiveFinancial Times\"While silver’s grip on the human psyche is less potent than that of gold it can still fascinate, as a new book, The Story of Silver... fruitfully demonstrates ... The author is at his best in his account of Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt’s manipulation of the silver market in the 1970s and 1980s, which aroused financial stability concerns in Paul Volcker’s Federal Reserve ... Silber has traded options and futures contracts on Wall Street and it shows in an impeccably researched and gripping account of the market shenanigans.\
Sebastian Mallaby
RaveThe Financial Times...[an] exceptional new biography ... Mallaby’s verdict on Greenspan is not ungenerous. He credits him with prescience on a range of matters that now tend to be forgotten in the shadow of the financial crisis and points to the value of his empiricist approach to economics ... [a] deeply researched and elegantly written biography.
