Jesse Norman

A brilliant account of the life, thought, and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist. Adam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and the...

**Winner of the 2023 Parliamentary Book Awards****The New Statesman Book of the Year****Sunday Times Book of the Week**Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James I waiting to accede. But who will thrive, and who will fail, under the new king? Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon, whose brilliant mind is the envy of the court? Or his hated rival Edward...