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John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
Richard Reeves
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Description for John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
Paperback. Now in paperback, Richard Reeves's beautifully written book is the definitive life of one of the heroic giants of Victorian England and the first biography for general readers since 1954: 'The best book I have read in a long time.' Ben Wilson, Literary Review Num Pages: 624 pages, 2 x 8 page black and white plates. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; BGH; HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 48. Weight in Grams: 614. Victorian Firebrand. 624 pages, 2x 8 page black & white plates. A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay "On Liberty" and one of the most passionate reformers and advocates of his revolutionary, opinionated age. This book explores his life and work in tandem. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; BGH; HPCD. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 48. Weight: 614.
A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay On Liberty and one of the most passionate reformers and advocates of his revolutionary, opinionated age. As a journalist he fired off a weekly article on Irish land reform as the people of that nation starved, as an MP he introduced the first vote on women's suffrage, fought to preserve free-speech and opposed slavery, and, in his private life, pursued for two decades a love affair with another man's wife. ... Read more
A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay On Liberty and one of the most passionate reformers and advocates of his revolutionary, opinionated age. As a journalist he fired off a weekly article on Irish land reform as the people of that nation starved, as an MP he introduced the first vote on women's suffrage, fought to preserve free-speech and opposed slavery, and, in his private life, pursued for two decades a love affair with another man's wife. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
614g
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843546443
SKU
V9781843546443
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About Richard Reeves
Richard Reeves is a leading social and political commentator, writing regularly for the Observer, New Statesman, Guardian, and Prospect. He is a former Columnist of the Year and Young Financial Journalist of the Year and has held research fellowships at the Institute for Public Policy Research and the University of London. He is the author of Dream Hoarders, about the ... Read more
Reviews for John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
Meticulously explored... This is a masterpiece.
Catholic Herald
Richard Reeves has assembled an impressive array of material and marshalled it with great style... the pace never slackens, the writing is slick and lucid.
Phil Collins
Daily Telegraph
Gripping and authoritative... Liberty, individualism and imagination were the essence of Mill's thought, and now that Mill's liberalism ... Read more
Catholic Herald
Richard Reeves has assembled an impressive array of material and marshalled it with great style... the pace never slackens, the writing is slick and lucid.
Phil Collins
Daily Telegraph
Gripping and authoritative... Liberty, individualism and imagination were the essence of Mill's thought, and now that Mill's liberalism ... Read more