This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is Eleanor Marks, a biography, by

Yvonne Cap, with a preface by Sally Alexander. Eleanor Marks is one of the most tragically overlooked radical figures in history,

usually overshadowed by her father Carl.

But not only did she edit, translate, transcribe, and collaborate with her father. She also led an extraordinary

life as a labor organizer, trade unionist, translator, actor, and feminist.

Much of this, we only know because of this highly acclaimed outstanding exception to the omission of Eleanor Marks from history.

Yvonne Cap's biography was first published at the height of feminist organizing in the 1970s.

Cap brilliantly succeeds in capturing Eleanor's spirit from a lively child opining on the

world's affairs to the new woman, aspiring to the stage,

earning her living as a free intellectual, and helping to lead England's unskilled workers

at the height of the new unionism.

She was always more then, yet at the same time inescapably, Carl Marx's daughter.

It is also inevitably an unrivaled biography of the Marx household in Victorian London, of

the Marx Circle, and of Frederick Ingalls, the family's extraordinary mentor.

Eleanor Marx, a biography by Avon Cap, out podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Very serious people in Washington are easily seduced by vapid and self-serving

accounts of their own savvy operation of the machinery of government.

Books like Bob Woodward's latest exercise in long-form stenography, Fear, Trump in the White

House.

Many journalists are serious people too, and so unsurprisingly they like Woodward's book. As my returning guest Patrick Blanchfield argues,

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