Marx's General
The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
Hunt, Tristram
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
A remarkable new biography from one of Britains leading young historians that recovers the co-founder of communism from the shadows of historyThough The Communist Manifesto credits Friedrich Engels as its co-author, it was Karl Marx who gave his name to the creed that swept the world. Yet without Engels, Marxism would have been impossible. For forty years Engels supported Marx personally and financially, enduring a loathed existence as a textile magnate to give his friend the freedom to write. It was Engelss firsthand knowledge of slums and factory conditions that underpinned Communist doctrine; it was his grasp of global capitalism that made its way into Das Kapital. And, after Marxs death, it was Engelss work that set the stage for the political theories of the USSR. Drawing on a wealth of letters and archives, renowned historian Tristram Hunt reclaims the intellectual legacy of one of the greatest social commentators, and details a life of extraordinary contradiction: the capitalist mill owner who urged the dictatorship of the proletariat; the incendiary radical who concealed scandalizing love affairs behind a façade of bourgeois respectability. An epic tale of devoted friendship, ideological struggle, and family heartbreak, Marxs General restores to full importance this major historical figure.
AUTHOR BIO
Tristram Hunt is a lecturer in history at the University of London. The author of Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City, he writes political and cultural commentary for The Guardian, The Times, and the London Review of Books, among other publications.
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ISBN: 0805080252
ISBN(13-digit): 9780805080254
Dewey Decimal: 335.4092
Library of Congress: 2009003845
Book Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 430
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