Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant
Fordham University’s McNally Amphitheater 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United StatesDuring the upheavals of 2007–2009, the Federal Reserve chairman had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill and author of Lombard Street, the still-canonical guide to stopping a run on the banks, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that―decades later―inspired the radical responses to the world’s worst financial crises.