National Review, June 14th, 1985
ROY HARROD's "official" biography of John Maynard Keynes, published in 1951, was a most unwelcome kind of tour de force: a boring book about a fascinating man. One would have thought it impossible to write dully about an economist who claimed that his only regret in life was that he hadn't drunk more champagne, but The Life of John Maynard Keynes is grim proof that, to the pedant, all bad things are possible.
Harrod's main problem, of course, was that he was unwilling to discuss Keynes's homosexuality and consequently unable to write honestly about his private life. ("This is the biography ...
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