The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas Book

This book certainly has its charms with the author sprinkling his own insight into the life of Adam Smith and his work, and it is written in an erudite fashion. Erudite, however, shouldn't mean dry and boring, which is how this slim volume reads. The author clearly has knowledge and depth in his subject, effortlessly weaving in both historical context and Smith's contemporaries in order to better understand the man and his work itself, but the prose made what could have been an excellent book into just an okay one.