Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Behind the towering ideology that reshaped the modern world stood a man of startling contradictions — a visionary plagued by poverty, a champion of the working class who never held a day job, and a devoted father whose personal life was marked by tragedy and turmoil. Saul K. Padover's Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography strips away the myth and monument to present the flesh-and-blood man behind Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, chronicling his turbulent relationships, intellectual rivalries, and lifelong struggle against exile, debt, and illness. Padover, a distinguished political scientist and historian, brings formidable scholarly authority to his subject, drawing on personal letters, diaries, and primary sources to illuminate Marx not merely as an architect of revolution, but as a husband, father, and friend. The result is a portrait that is as psychologically penetrating as it is historically rigorous, casting fresh light on the private passions and contradictions that fueled one of history's most consequential minds. Readers who think they know Karl Marx will discover they have only just begun.
Author: Saul K. Padover
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Behind the towering ideology that reshaped the modern world stood a man of startling contradictions — a visionary plagued by poverty, a champion of the working class who never held a day job, and a devoted father whose personal life was marked by tragedy and turmoil. Saul K. Padover's Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography strips away the myth and monument to present the flesh-and-blood man behind Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, chronicling his turbulent relationships, intellectual rivalries, and lifelong struggle against exile, debt, and illness. Padover, a distinguished political scientist and historian, brings formidable scholarly authority to his subject, drawing on personal letters, diaries, and primary sources to illuminate Marx not merely as an architect of revolution, but as a husband, father, and friend. The result is a portrait that is as psychologically penetrating as it is historically rigorous, casting fresh light on the private passions and contradictions that fueled one of history's most consequential minds. Readers who think they know Karl Marx will discover they have only just begun.