As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions...
This classic biography of Karl Marx, complete with Gareth Stedman Jones’ poignant introduction, is unlike any other account of its subject. Focusing as much on Marx’s private life as on his public...
"A brilliant book, by a superb author, about a necessary man."―Christopher Hitchens In this stunning book, the first comprehensive biography of Marx since the end of the Cold War, Francis Wheen gives...