The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels: The Life and Times of the Original Champagne Socialist Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels: The Life and Times of the Original Champagne Socialist Book

The Frock-coated Communist Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman. Full descriptionRead More

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    Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman. Yet Engels was also the co-founder of international communism - the philosophy which in the 20th century came to control one third of the human race. He was the co-author of The Communist Manifesto, a ruthless party tactician, and the man who sacrificed his best years so Karl Marx could write Das Kapital. Tristram Hunt relishes the diversity and exuberance of Engels's era: how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his raucous personal life with this uncompromising political philosophy.

  • 0141021403
  • 9780141021409
  • Tristram Hunt
  • 29 April 2010
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 480
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