Gratifying to see this review of our book from Choice, which influences what libraries buy in particular:

“Karl Marx is simultaneously one of the most important and most mischaracterized philosophers of the last 200 years. And yet there has been no clear, transparent introduction to the life and works of Marx, until now. Students and newcomers to Marx’s writings will find in this text an approachable but rigorous introduction to his central ideas in philosophy, politics, and economics. These ideas include his turn away from key elements in Hegel; his views on class conflict, exploitation, and the communist revolution; the labor theory of value; his views on the the role that private property plays in alienating workers from the good life; and an analysis of the impact and legacy of Marxism on more contemporary academic disciplines. At the same time, this is also a work of scholarship in which Edwards and Leiter develop and defend a plausible reading of the historical materialism theory, showing both how it represents the correct movement away from Hegel’s dialectical idealism and again demonstrating the practical importance of the theory, including how the failure of the Bolsheviks to embrace it ultimately led to problems for the Russian Revolution.”

It is surprising that there haven’t been other “clear, transparent introduction[s] to the life and works of Marx.”  We are glad to have filled the gap!