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.
- ISBN10 1843546442
- ISBN13 9781843546443
- Publish Date 1 September 2008 (first published 8 November 2007)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Atlantic Books
- Edition Main - Print on Demand
- Format Paperback
- Pages 624
- Language English