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The Frock-Coated Communist : The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, EPUB eBook

The Frock-Coated Communist : The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels EPUB

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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.

Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Europe and industrializing England - of Manchester mills, Paris barricades, and East End strikes - it is a story of devoted friendship, class compromise, ideological struggle, and family betrayal.

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