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By Francis Wheen

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9780007462674 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, April 16, 2015, cover price $28.60

Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx

Product Description: In 1849 Karl Marx moved to London, where he would remain based for much of his life attempting to organize the revolution of the working class there. In the early 1850s Marx and his family lived in extreme poverty, largely they relied on the aid of Friedrich Engels, whose father was a wealthy German cotton manufacturer...read more

By Karl Marx

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9781420950151 | Digireads.Com, January 1, 2014, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: In 1849 Karl Marx moved to London, where he would remain based for much of his life attempting to organize the revolution of the working class there.

9780141441924 | Penguin Classics, February 26, 2008, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Karl Marx (1818-1883) is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the great foreign correspondents of the nineteenth century.

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Francis Wheen

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Hardcover:

9780007244270 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, September 3, 2009, cover price $31.65

Paperback:

9780007244287 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, April 15, 2010, cover price $15.05

Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: the Golden Days of Paranoia

By Francis Wheen

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Hardcover:

9781586488451 | 1 edition (Public Affairs, March 2, 2010), cover price $26.95

Marx's "Das Kapital": A Biography

By Francis Wheen

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9788183221023 | Gardners Books, June 30, 2009, cover price $15.45

Marx's Das Kapital: Library Edition

Product Description: In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Born in a two-room flat in London's Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the first volume of Das Kapital was published in 1867 to muted praise...read more

By Simon Vance (narrator) and Francis Wheen

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9781400133925 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 1, 2007), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece.

La Historia Del Capital De Karl Marx/ the History of the Capital of Karl Marx

By Francis Wheen

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Hardcover:

9788483067000 | Debate Editorial, February 28, 2007, cover price $19.95

The Irresistible Con: The Bizarre Life of a Fraudulent Genius

No-one suspected a thing when a new figure appeared on the London academic scene. Charlotte Bach was a former lecturer at the University of Budapest, and had a new theory of sex and evolution which was soon being heralded as one of the greatest intellectual advances of the 20th century.

By Francis Wheen

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9781904095743 | Short Books, August 1, 2005, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: No-one suspected a thing when a new figure appeared on the London academic scene.

How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World

Product Description: What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria...read more

By Francis Wheen

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9781586483487 | Public Affairs, July 5, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: What characterizes our era?

Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense

Argues that there has been an erosion of Enlightenment values in favor of irrationalism and nonsense , most notably in the United States and Great Britain since the year 1979.

By Francis Wheen

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9781586482473 | Public Affairs, June 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Argues that there has been an erosion of Enlightenment values in favor of irrationalism and nonsense , most notably in the United States and Great Britain since the year 1979.

Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies

Topics covered in this collection of Francis Wheen's articles include the follies of think-tanks, the future of swearing, the hypocrisy of New Labour and the madness of retired prime ministers, as well as shady business deals and scabrous gossip.

By Francis Wheen

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9781843540267 | New edition (Atlantic Books, September 10, 2003), cover price $12.55 | About this edition: Topics covered in this collection of Francis Wheen's articles include the follies of think-tanks, the future of swearing, the hypocrisy of New Labour and the madness of retired prime ministers, as well as shady business deals and scabrous gossip.

Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism, 1991 - 2001

By Francis Wheen

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9781903809426 | Atlantic Books, February 11, 2002, cover price $16.60 | About this edition: Topics covered in this collection of Francis Wheen's articles include the follies of think-tanks, the future of swearing, the hypocrisy of New Labour and the madness of retired prime ministers, as well as shady business deals and scabrous gossip.

Karl Marx: A Life

The first major biography of Karl Marx since the end of the Cold War provides an in-depth look at the man and his work, painting a picture not of a socialist ogre, but of a fascinating, ultimately humane man who lived both at the center and on the fringes of his age. Reprint.

By Francis Wheen

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9780393049237 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Looks at the life of the father of Communism focusing primarily on the human side of the man rather than his works

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9780393321579 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 2001), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Looks at the life of the father of Communism, focusing primarily on the human side of the man rather than his works.

Soul of Indiscretion: Tom Driberg-Poet, Philanderer, Legislator, Outlaw

Product Description: In his obituary,Â The TimesÂ described Tom Driberg as âan unreliable man of undoubted distinction...the admiration and despair of his friends and acquaintances.â An Oxford Socialist, Driberg was also a flamboyant and promiscuous homosexual, an intriguer and a gossip, and a friend to the Sitwells and the Krays...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Francis Wheen

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9781841155753 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, April 1, 2001, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: In his obituary,Â The TimesÂ described Tom Driberg as âan unreliable man of undoubted distinction.

Karl Marx

By Francis Wheen

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Hardcover:

9788483063279 | Debate Editorial, September 30, 2000, cover price $26.95

9781857026375 | Fourth Estate Classic House, February 1, 2000, cover price $50.00

Paperback:

9788483063453 | Debate Editorial, February 1, 2000, cover price $44.95

Lord Gnome's Literary Companion

Product Description: His review has got to be âinâ by mid-day tomorrow ... at about 9 pm his mind will grow relatively clear, and until the small hours he will sit ... skipping expertly through one book after another and laying each one down with the comment, âGod, what tripe!â ...read more

By Francis Wheen (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781859849453 | Verso Books, December 1, 1994, cover price $28.00

Paperback:

9781859840450 | Verso Books, June 17, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: His review has got to be âinâ by mid-day tomorrow .

Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions

By Francis Wheen

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Hardcover:

9780701131432 | Chatto & Windus, April 1, 1990, cover price $39.95

Television

By Francis Wheen

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Hardcover:

9780712609296 | David & Charles, October 1, 1986, cover price $30.95

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