Books by Francis Wheen

Strange Days Indeed tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of western politics and ... More

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An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times ... More

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"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 ... More

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First published in 1867, "Das Kapital" was a blazingly original criticism of the new capitalist world. Its ideas would alter the course of history ... More

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A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute. The history of the 20th ... More

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In this first comprehensive biography of Marx since the end of the Cold War, Wheen delivers not a socialist ogre but a fascinating, ultimately humane ... More

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In 1971 a curious new character appeared on the London academic scene, her name was Charlotte Bach. She was a former lecturer at the University of ... More

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Francis Wheen has established himself as one of the most brilliant and admired journalists writing in Britain today with his massively acclaimed ... More

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A dazzling and disturbing tour of the 1970s, featuring some of the least well-balanced world leaders and would-be revolutionaries in history, told ... More

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His names were crazy enough--Baron Hajdu, Carl Rodgers, Mr. Carl, Michael Karoly. And his jobs too--receptionist, hypnotherapist, businessman, ... More

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In his obituary, "The Times" described Tom Driberg as "an unreliable man of undoubted distinction...the admiration and despair of his friends and ... More

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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it," wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This is the essence of "Das ... More

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'I'll read anything by Francis Wheen' Nick Hornby, Guardian. Francis Wheen has established himself as one of the most brilliant and admired ... More

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A mysterious, influential and often extremely dubious man of affairs, Tom Driberg embodied many of the contradictions and ambiguities of his time. At ... More

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This anthology gathers writings from 5th-century Japan to Baudelaire, medieval Italy to Vikram Seth, to bring out the strangeness, beauty, comic ... More

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In this brilliant book, Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished ... More

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In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, "Idiot Proof" is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our ... More

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A dazzling and disturbing tour of the 1970s, featuring some of the least well-balanced world leaders and would-be revolutionaries in history, told ... More

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