Review of Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
by Richard Davenport-Hines
Splitting a biography of the influential economist into parts pays dividends
I admit I came to Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes with a certain prejudice. I knew Richard Davenport-Hines as an accomplished writer and biographer. But he has no background in economics. How could he write a successful life of the most fascinating and influential economist of the 20th century, the economist who gave governments the tools to fight slumps? (Not that they always use them!)