Karl Marx: A Life (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Karl Marx: A Life Thursday, August 6 2009.

• In this stunning book, the first comprehensive biography of Marx since the end of the Cold War, Francis Wheen gives us not a socialist ogre but a fascinating, ultimately humane man, while still examining the criticisms of his detractors. A study in contradictions, Karl Marx was at once a reserved scholar, a fiery agitator, and a gregarious socialite, while his intellect and ideology were once described as "Rousseau, Voltaire, and Hegel fused into one person." He lived both at the center and on the fringes of his age, and his oratory and writing continue to change the contemporary world. In his entertaining, offbeat style, Wheen offers an eminently readable biography of one of history's most unforgettable figures.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Karl Marx: A Life Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Francis Wheen: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Karl Marx: A Life Thursday, July 16 2009.

• A train grinds slowly through the Moselle valley - tall pines, terraced vineyards, prim villages, calm smoke in the winter sky.