{"product_id":"2940170691692","title":"Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels","description":"Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous Prussian mercantile family, he spent his life working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable upper-middle-class existence of a Victorian gentleman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet Engels was also, with Karl Marx, the founder of international communism, which in the twentieth century came to govern one-third of the human race. He was coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, a ruthless party tactician, and the man who sacrificed his best years so that Marx could write \u003ci\u003eDas Kapital\u003c\/i\u003e. His searing account of the Industrial Revolution, \u003ci\u003eThe Condition of the Working Class in England\u003c\/i\u003e, remains one of the most haunting and brutal indictments of the human costs of capitalism. Far more than Marx's indispensable aide, Engels was a profound thinker in his own right-on warfare, feminism, urbanism, Darwinism, technology, and colonialism. With fierce clarity, he predicted the social effects of today's free-market fundamentalism and unstoppable globalization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a wealth of letters and archives, acclaimed historian Tristram Hunt plumbs Engels's intellectual legacy and shows us how one of the great \u003ci\u003ebon viveurs\u003c\/i\u003e of Victorian Britain reconciled his exuberant personal life with his radical political philosophy. Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Europe and industrializing England-of Manchester mills, Paris barricades, and East End strikes-\u003ci\u003eMarx's General\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story of devoted friendship, class compromise, ideological struggle, and family betrayal. And it tackles head-on the question of Engels's influence: was Engels, after Marx's death, responsible for some of the most devastating turns of twentieth-century history, or was the idealism of his thought distorted by those who claimed to be his followers?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn epic history and riveting biography, \u003ci\u003eMarx's General\u003c\/i\u003e at last brings Engels out from the shadow of his famous friend and collaborator.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117600096496,"sku":"2940170691692","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170691692_p0.jpg?v=1763812566","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170691692","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}