Drawing on Bagehot's essays, pamphlets, books and articles from "The Economist", this is a collection of his best writing. There are pieces on Shakespeare, entrepreneurs, the stupidity of the English, the monarchy and the foolishness of bankers, as well as portraits of Lincoln, Gladstone and Disraeli. This book is to be published simultaneously with Ruth Dudley Edwards's "The Pursuit of Reason: 'The Economist' 1843-1993".
- ISBN10 0241132878
- ISBN13 9780241132876
- Publish Date 2 September 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 November 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English