{"product_id":"the-frock-coated-communist-a-revolutionary-life","title":"The Frock Coated Communist: A Revolutionary Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eFriedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman. Yet Engels was also the co-founder of international communism - the philosophy which in the 20th century came to control one third of the human race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was the co-author of The Communist Manifesto, a ruthless party tactician, and the man who sacrificed his best years so Karl Marx could write Das Kapital. Tristram Hunt relishes the diversity and exuberance of Engels's era: how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his raucous personal life with this uncompromising political philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of revolutionary Europe and industrializing England - of Manchester mills, Paris barricades, and East End strikes - it is a story of devoted friendship, class compromise, ideological struggle, and family betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tristram Hunt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50481770660009,"sku":"9780713998528","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780713998528.jpg?v=1790384764","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-frock-coated-communist-a-revolutionary-life","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}