Reeves Richard - John Stuart Mill Victorian Firebrand - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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. To understand Mill and his contribution Richard Reeves explores his life and work in tandem. His book is a riveting and authoritative biography of a man raised to promote happiness whose life was spent in the pursuit of truth and liberty for all.
Title: John Stuart Mill Victorian Firebrand
Author(s): Reeves Richard
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Barcode: 9781843546443
Pages: 624 Pages, 2 X 8 Page Black And White Plates
Publication Date: 9/1/2008
Category: Western Philosophy: C 1600 To C 1900