Karl Marx, an intimate biography

He was born a Jew, yet became an anti-Semite. He was an aspiring poet who became a philosopher. He mastered economic theory, yet constantly courted catastrophe in his private finances. He was viciously vindictive towards opponents and rivals, and deeply loving as a husband to his nobly born wife and as a father to his three remarkable daughters. He preached violent revolution, but lived a bourgeois existence. He saw his dreams of change fail during a lifetime of exile, yet within a century after his death his name and ideas reached over the entire globe and changed the history of the world. Now this biography by one of the distinguished scholars of our time portrays Karl Marx in all his inner complexity and contradiction, and in all the drama of his life and thought. It is a work that was over a decade in the a making, utilizing source materials never before available.