Edwin Montagu

John Maynard Keynes

Chapter Chapter 6 in Essays in Biography, 2010, pp 41-42 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Most of the newspaper accounts which I have read do less than justice to the remarkable personality of Edwin Montagu. He was one of those who suffer violent fluctuations of mood, quickly passing from reckless courage and self-assertion to abject panic and dejection—always dramatising life and his part in it, and seeing himself and his own instincts either in the most favourable or in the most unfavourable light, but seldom with a calm and steady view. Thus it was easy for the spiteful to convict him out of his own mouth, and to belittle his name by remembering him only when his face was turned towards the earth. At one moment he would be Emperor of the East riding upon an elephant, clothed in rhetoric and glory, but at the next a beggar in the dust of the road, crying for alms but murmuring under his breath cynical and outrageous wit which pricked into dustier dust the rhetoric and the glory.

Keywords: Political Problem; Newspaper Account; Pure Finance; Male Person; Poor Moth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-59074-2_6

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