Renowned historian Gareth Stedman Jones has spent a lifetime studying and teaching the life and work of Karl Marx, the man whose ideas must be understood in order to understand the course of modern world history. The culmination of Gareth Stedman Jones’ lifetime’s work is a towering intellectual biography that explains both the greatness and the illusion that lie at the heart of an extraordinary man. Chaired by David Reynolds, Professor of International History, University of Cambridge.