“When I was researching the history of the Economist, of which Walter Bagehot was the third and greatest editor (1861-77), I gazed in dread one day at the 15 stern-looking volumes of his collected works, gritted my teeth and began the first.
Before long, I was in love.”
Read the full review of The Memoirs of Watler Bagehot by Frank Prochaska, by Ruth Dudley Edwards, published in History Today, Volume 64, Issue 1, 2014.
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