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'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.