Wobbly: The Rough-and-Tumble Story of an American Radical Book

I'm not sure what I expected from a book called "Marx in 90 Minutes" but this book still managed not to meet my expectations. So much of this brief volume focuses on the biographical details of Marx's life (one point to Strathern, I did not know that Karl Marx's wife Jenny was a baronness!) and so little time on Marxian theory - you know, the part that people actually care about when they see a title like "Marx in 90 Minutes." So you have 30 pages of Marx biography and a little north of 30 pages of Marxian theory - but even in those brief 30 pages the author can't resist the opportunity to apply his own capitalist critique of Marxism while giving it the shortest of shrift. There were about two pages that helped me grasp Marxism in a meaningful way - the rest was mostly biographical filler and the author's "objective" interpretation of Marxian theory. Your 90 minutes are better spent elsewhere.