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Article: A Requiem for Karl Marx.
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- National Review
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- January 29, 1996
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A Requiem for Karl Marx, by Frank E. Manuel (Harvard, 255 pp., $24.95)
Although Frank Manuel stands out as the American Left's most erudite historian, he has made little impact on the left-wing historians who now control his profession. They choose to ignore him, for he has never pandered to fads or prostituted his work to partisan ends.
The contributions to scholarship in A Requiem for Karl Marx are large but largely hidden. Manuel has always demonstrated a mastery of secondary sources, but he has written his books out of the primary sources, which he impressively commands. Thus he here provides a searing, genuinely fresh biographical sketch of Marx, the man, ...