Lawrence H. Summers, the former Harvard president and one of the country’s most renowned economists, is facing the worst scandal of his career after newly released emails showed him seeking advice from Jeffrey Epstein on how to seduce a young economic mentee long after the notorious financier’s 2008 sex-crimes conviction. This isn’t Summers’s first time in the hot seat, as Richard Bradley knows all too well. The author detailed many of Summers’s past scandals, his subsequent comebacks, and his unlikely path to becoming Harvard’s leader in 2005’s Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World’s Most Powerful University. That book, with its account of Summers routinely butting heads with faculty and staff, largely predicted his resignation as president a short time later after publi

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