The Frock-coated Communist: The Life and Times of the Original Champagne Socialist by Tristram Hunt

The Frock-coated Communist: The Life and Times of the Original Champagne Socialist

Tristram Hunt

406 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics 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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