“Utterly transporting and extremely cozy... As dishy a biography about dishes as can be imagined... One of the book’s many pleasures is its meticulous catalog of the china-buying public’s tastes, some whimsical and others bizarre or sinister.”
—The New York Times

“Easily the best account of that multi-faceted genius.”
—The Times Literary Supplement

“Brisk and highly readable... A fine new biography.”
—The Times (UK)

“Hunt performs the important task of telling the great potter’s story clearly and accessibly... Wedgwood the man should be as famous as Wedgwood the brand.”
-The Observer

“Fabulously unputdownable... In parts it reads like a thriller.”
—The Telegraph

“Impassioned, wide-ranging... Hunt’s sympathetic, engaged and finely written biography makes it clear that Wedgwood was a one-off, and a genius.”
—The Spectator

“Superb... Delicious, meticulously researched, wide-ranging but never long-winded.”
—Daily Mail

“Wedgwood’s remarkable story has been told in many biographies over the years. The great contribution of The Radical Potter is to place him in the context of the rapid economic and social changes during his lifetime that helped make his success possible.”
—Financial Times

“Hunt is exquisitely alive to all the contradictions in Wedgwood’s achievements... A rich portrait of the charismatic but contradictory man who made Georgian Britain the most stylish country in the world.”
—Mail on Sunday

“One of the achievements of Tristram Hunt’s biography is too bring into view the commercial and moral instincts of the man behind the powerhouse... Wedgwood emerges from this books as a man of voracious interest in the world. Canny and determined, he had both strong beliefs and the adaptability that marks any great innovator… Hunt is as interested in what the man can tell us about the times as the times meant for the man.”
-Literary Review

“A captivating portrait of a remarkably innovative man.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“This is a remarkable and impassioned book. Josiah Wedgwood innovated across boundaries of technology and art and taste, commerce and scientific enquiry, and Tristram Hunt makes the powerful case for rediscovering his humane entrepreneurial spirit. The Radical Potter brings Wedgwood’s protean energy alive for a new generation and I loved it.”
—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes