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A remarkable new biography from one of Britain’s leading young historians that recovers the co-founder of communism from the shadows of history
“Hunt is remarkably good at distilling an epoch and conveying a sense of place, and he perfectly judges the pace of his narrative, illustrating what he is saying without burdening the reader with detail best left in the archives.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“A splendid biography… Hunt’s vivid prose captures Engels’s idealism, generosity and foibles. That is to say, it makes him recognizably human.”
Tristram Hunt is a lecturer in history at the University of London. The author of Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City, he writes political and cultural commentary for The Guardian, The Times, and the London Review of Books, among other publications.
1 SIEGFRIED IN ZION
"Rejoice with me, dearly beloved Karl, that the good Lord has heard our prayer and last Tuesday evening, the 28th, at 9 pm presented us with a babe, a healthy well-shapen boy. We thank and praise Him from the fullness of our hearts for this child, and for the merciful assistance and care for mother and child during confinement." In late November 1820, after his wife’s dificult labor, the Rhineland businessman Friedrich En-gels was delighted to announce to his brother-in-law Karl Snethlage the birth of his first son and namesake.
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