Karl Marx, an Intimate Biography

Saul Kussiel Padover (1905-1981) was a historian and political scientist at the New School for Social Research in New York City. In this seminal biography, published in 1978, Padover explains in the "Author's Note": "In this book, which has been twelve years in the making, I have aimed at something not available in other biographies of Marx: an objective account of him as a human being -- lover, husband, friend, fighter, father, foe -- rather than as the philosophic symbol and revolutionary idol that he has become."