{"product_id":"john-stuart-mill-victorian-firebrand-9781843546443","title":"John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe definitive life of John Stuart Mill  one of the heroic giants of Victorian England  Richard Reeves sparkling new biography can be read as an attempt to do justice to this eminent thinker  and it succeeds triumphantly. He reveals Mill as a man of actiona philosopher and radical MP who profoundly shaped Victorian society and whose thinking continues to illuminate our own. The product of an extraordinary and unique education  Mill would become in time the most significant 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 weekly articles demanding Irish land reform as the people of that nation starved  as an MP he introduced the first vote on womens suffrage  fought to preserve free-speech  and opposed slaveryand  in his private life  for two decades pursued a love affair with another mans wife. To understand Mill and his contribution to his time and ours  Richard Reeves explores his life and work in tandem. The result is both a riveting and authoritative biography of a man raised by his father to promote happiness  whose life was spent in the pursuit of truth and liberty for all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666234335285,"sku":"ByrdShop_1843546442","price":56.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781843546443.jpg?v=1782424365","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/john-stuart-mill-victorian-firebrand-9781843546443","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}