{"product_id":"book-bebi","title":"Marx's General","description":"Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous Prussian mercantile family, he spent his life working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable upper-middle-class existence of a Victorian gentleman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet Engels was also, with Karl Marx, the founder of international communism, which in the twentieth century came to govern one-third of the human race. He was coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, a ruthless party tactician, and the man who sacrificed his best years so that Marx could write \u003ci\u003eDas Kapital\u003c\/i\u003e. His searing account of the Industrial Revolution, \u003ci\u003eThe Condition of the Working Class in England\u003c\/i\u003e, remains one of the most haunting and brutal indictments of the human costs of capitalism. Far more than Marx's indispensable aide, Engels was a profound thinker in his own right—on warfare, feminism, urbanism, Darwinism, technology, and colonialism. With fierce clarity, he predicted the social effects of today's free-market fundamentalism and unstoppable globalization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a wealth of letters and archives, acclaimed historian Tristram Hunt plumbs Engels's intellectual legacy and shows us how one of the great \u003ci\u003ebon viveurs\u003c\/i\u003e of Victorian Britain reconciled his exuberant personal life with his radical political philosophy. Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Europe and industrializing England—of Manchester mills, Paris barricades, and East End strikes—\u003ci\u003eMarx's General\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story of devoted friendship, class compromise, ideological struggle, and family betrayal. And it tackles head-on the question of Engels's influence: was Engels, after Marx's death, responsible for some of the most devastating turns of twentieth-century history, or was the idealism of his thought distorted by those who claimed to be his followers?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn epic history and riveting biography, \u003ci\u003eMarx's General\u003c\/i\u003e at last brings Engels out from the shadow of his famous friend and collaborator.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49392015769904,"sku":"BDbebi","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49392015802672,"sku":"ZEbebi","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49392015835440,"sku":"ZMbebi","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49392015868208,"sku":"40bebi","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bebi-Square-cover.jpg?v=1770864516","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bebi","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}