An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books.[...]
'If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.' A jaw-droppingly brilliant account of how the seventies was defined by mass paranoia told with Francis [...]
In this stunning book, the first comprehensive biography of Marx since the end of the Cold War, Francis Wheen gives us not a socialist ogre but a fascinating, ultimately humane man, while still examining the criticisms of his detractors. A study in contradictions, Karl Marx was at once a reserved sc[...]
In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics with a combination of breezy charm and asserti[...]
A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.[...]
His names were crazy enough - Baron Hajdu, Carl Rodgers, Mr Carl, Michael Karoly. And his jobs - receptionist, hypnotherapist, businessman, rentier, journalist and sex worker. But he was always careful to cover his tracks, so no-one suspected a thing when in 1971 a curious new figure appeared on the[...]
Marxin pääoma on marxilaisen ajattelun keskeisin teos. Karl Marx (1818-83) työsti Pääomaa Lontoossa kaksikymmentä vuotta, kunnes se julkaistiin ensi kertaa Saksassa vuonna 1867. Teos oli säkenöivän omintakeinen, ja se sisälsi hurjaa kritiikkiä nousevaa kapitalistista maailmanjärjestystä[...]