"A century ago, John Maynard Keynes entered the Treasury to serve his country during the First World War, but as is well known, appalled by the terms of the end-of-war Treaty of Versailles, he abandoned the British delegation, outlining the predictable adverse results in the Economic...

1. Portraits of Keynes as a young man -- 2. 'Liberal imperialist', 1902-05 -- 3. Keynes, Marshall and Cambridge economics in 1905 -- 4. From apprentice to lecturer -- 5. Lecturing and electioneering -- 6. India -- 7. Epilogue.