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Genius of the Modern World

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Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud changed the landscape of the modern world. Together they re-imagined global economics; questioned the very foundations of morality and society; and unraveled the workings of the human mind. Traveling through Europe, historian Bettany Hughes uncovers the personal lives of the men behind the famous theories.

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