Keynes was not only an economist, as he is remembered today, but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the twentieth century. A moral philosopher, political theorist, and statesman, Keynes immersed himself in a creative milieu as he developed his own innovative and at times radical thought, reinventing Enlightenment liberalism for the harrowing crises of his day. The Price of Peace follows Keynes from intimate turn-of-the-century parties in London's riotous Bloomsbury art scene to the fevered negotiations in Paris that shaped the Treaty of Versailles, through stock market crashes and currency crises to diplomatic breakthroughs and wartime ballet openings. In this riveting biography, veteran journalist Zachary D. Carter unearths the lost legacy of one of history's most important minds. In The Price of Peace, Carter revives a forgotten set of ideas with the power to reinvent national government and reframe the principles of international diplomacy in our own time.