Word: hession
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the official biography of John Maynard Keynes appeared in 1951, an acquaintance remarked, "This is the biography of Lord Keynes. Someone else must write the life of Maynard." That someone is Charles Hession, author of John Maynard Keynes (Macmillan; 400 pages; $22.95). His ambitious treatment draws on previously unavailable material to portray the private life of the man who forever changed the nature of capitalism by asserting that deficit spending could cure business slumps. The unique angle and breadth of Keynes' vision, Hession argues, were rooted in a combination of intuition, poetry and bisexuality...
...discussing Keynes' impact on the world economy from the Versailles peace conference after World War I to the monetary system set up toward the end of World War II, Hession dwells on Keynes' sexual proclivities. Born in 1883, Keynes was the first and favored child of an intellectual Victorian family. He had his first homosexual experience at Eton, and later pursued what was then called "the friendship that dare not speak its name" with Artist Duncan Grant, among others...