The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt

The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

Tristram Hunt

464 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 hound...

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