This book presents <strong>Karl Marx</strong> as a man of both brilliance and frailty: as a poverty-stricken Prussian emigre who became a middle-class English g... » 

This book presents Karl Marx as a man of both brilliance and frailty: as a poverty-stricken Prussian emigre who became a middle-class English gentleman; as an angry agitator; as a gregarious and convivial host; as a devoted family man; and as a deeply earnest philosopher who loved drink and cigars. «