In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, “likely to be definitive for many years to come” (John Gray, New York Review of Books), historian Jonathan Sperber creates a meticulously researched and multilayered portrait of both the man and the revolutionary times in which he live…
A biography of the philosopher and political revolutionary describes his childhood and family life along with his public life as an agitator and dissident and compares him to his contemporaries.
Using the recently opened complete Marx and Engels databse, Sperber juxtaposes the private man against the public agitator who helped foment the 1848-49 Revolution and whose incendiary books inflamed the dissident world of Europe.
“Absorbing, meticulously researched. . . . (Sperber) succeeds in the primary task of all biography, re-creating a man who leaps off the page.” ?Jonathan Freedland, -- New York Review of Books provides a historical context for the personal story of one of the most influential and…
A biography of the philosopher and political revolutionary describes his childhood and family life along with his public life as an agitator and dissident and compares him to his contemporaries.