"I was initially skeptical about the book’s 820 pages . . . but every detail is justified and every digression fascinating. . . . Reading Parker’s comprehensive account of the 20th century’s economic battles, I can’t help thinking that this ought to be Galbraith’s moment."

Thomas Frank | New York Times Book Review

“The most readable and instructive biography—certainly of the century. . . . . The book is deeply and intimately informative.”

William F. Buckley | National Review

“Wonderfully rendered. . . . Offers an antidote to the public ennui, economic cruelty, and government malfeasance that poison life in America today.”

Boston Globe

“Parker’s book is more than a chronicle of Galbraith’s life; it’s a history of American politics and policy from FDR through George W. Bush. . . . It will make readers more economically and politically aware.”

USA Today

"[This] work is no less than the intellectual history of economics from the disintegration of orthodoxy during the Great Depression to the rise and fall of the Keynesian alternative. The book is a well-written, even indispensable, guide to the intellectual controversies that marked the discipline of economics over the past one hundred years."

Gregory R. Zieren | The Historian

"[Parker] turns Galbraith’s life into a remarkably well-written and deeply researched tale of one of the most influential economists of the century. As should any excellent buiography, it not only traces the life of the subject but also situates that life in the broader context of events. . . . The result is a rich and detailed economic and political history of the Unted States in the 20th century, with Galbraith at the center of it."

Steven Horwitz | Research in the History of Economic Thought & Methodology