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John Maynard Keynes is the man who saved Britain from financial crisis not once but twice - over the course of two World Wars. He remains a highly influential figure, nearly 70 years after his death. But who was he?
In this entertaining biography, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us the man behind the economics as he writes about the seven lives of his subject: Keynes as Altruist, Boy Prodigy, Official, Public Man, Lover, Connoisseur, and Envoy, and explores Keynes’ homosexual life fully. Between 1906 and 1916 (the ages of 23 and 33), Keynes kept a tally of his lovers (all male), both friends and pick-ups, together with frequency of copulation. The list starts with ‘Stable Boy at Park Lane’ and ends with ‘Grand Duke Cyril of the Paris Baths’ and provides a vivid history of Edwardian cruising habits and venues. The first great consummated love of his life was with Duncan Grant, but then in his late 30s, Keynes ‘settled down’ with the ballerina, Lydia Lopokova, and didn’t sleep with men again.
Author : Richard Davenport-Hines
Paperback, 432 pages, Orig. Published 2015, This Edition Publ. December 2015