More judicious than Mr Lebrecht's tome, it outlines the often vexed relationship between creative temperaments and their commercial representatives who can be quite temperamental too.

ECONOMIST: Classical music

Was the Supreme Court's final call judicious or partisan?

ECONOMIST: There is still much to learn from the dead heat of 2000

Mr Jordan's solution is a judicious mixture of chronological and thematic sections, looking at large regions, and hopping from one idea to the next as suitable cues present themselves.

ECONOMIST: Medieval history