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The Frock-coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

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` era: how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his raucous personal life with this uncompromising political philosophy.

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