A Very English Deceit: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial ScandalThe paperback of the critically acclaimed popular history book: the story of the South Sea Bubble which in Balens hands becomes a morality tale for our times. A classic collision of political ambition, mercenary greed and financial revolution. The early years of the 18th century produced two great monuments: one, Christopher Wrens new cathedral of St Pauls, an enduring testament to principled craft and masterful construction; the other, an empty fraud