John Stuart Mill
Author | : Richard Reeves |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2015-02-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781782397137 |
ISBN-13 | : 1782397132 |
Rating | : 4/5 (132 Downloads) |
Download or read book John Stuart Mill written by Richard Reeves and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.