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Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he resided. Between his delivery in 1818 and his death 65 years later, Karl Marx became one of American civilization's most influential political philosophers. Two centuries on, he is still revered as a prophet of today's world, yet he is also blamed for the darkest atrocities of contemporary times. But no subject in what light he is cast, the short, but broad-shouldered, bearded Marx remains - as a human being - distorted on a Procrustean foundation of political "isms", perceived through the partly distorting zoom lens of his chief disciple, Friedrich Engels, or understood as a number of 20th-century totalitarian Marxist regimes. Returning Marx to the Victorian confines of the 19th century, Jonathan Sperber, one of the United Expresses' leading Western historians, challenges quite a few misconceptions of this political firebrand converted London journalist. Within this deeply humanizing family portrait, Marx no longer is the Olympian soothsayer, divining the dialectical imperatives of human history, but a scholar-activist whose groundbreaking Weltanschauung was closer to Robespierre's than to people of 20th-century Marxists. With unrestricted usage of the MEGA (the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, the full total release of Marx's and Engels' writings), only recently available, Sperber juxtaposes the private man, the public agitator, and the philosopher-economist. With Napoleon III, Bismarck, Adam Smith, and Charles Darwin, among others, as encouraging players, Karl Marx becomes not only a biography of a guy but a captivating portrait associated with an infinitely complicated time. Already hailed by Web publishers Regular as "a major work... apt to be the standard biography of Marx for many years," Karl Marx guarantees to become the defining family portrait of a towering historical number.
