The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood might be remembered best now as a venerable fine-china tradename and, perhaps, as Charles Darwin's grandfather, but in his tirelessly eventful life he put himself at the center of a rapidly changing England, as one of the leading entrepreneurs of the Industrial Revolution, as well as a free-thinking supporter of abolition and the French Revolution (even as he built his ceramics business by catering to aristocratic luxury tastemakers). Hunt captures the man's energy and charm, with a museum curator's particular eye for both the engineering and marketing brilliance that made him the Steve Jobs of his day and made Wedgwood one of the first global brands.