"Ironside's analysis is presented with enviable clarity and much good humor, and offers a shrewd sense of the trajectory of Russell's multifaceted life and ever-evolving contexts...Philip Ironside has written an intelligent and lucid book of interest not merely to specialists on Russell's life and thought but also to students of public life, social theory, and political debate in modern Britain." Victorian Studies

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A young man of character; 2. Fellow-travelling with the Fabians; 3. Out of the moral gymnasium; 4. Political science; 5. The sage of Caxton Hall; 6. Anarchist tendencies; 7. Russia, China and the West; 8; The Wellsian trajectory; 9. Ideologies and dystopias; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

"Ironside's analysis is presented with enviable clarity and much good humor, and offers a shrewd sense of the trajectory of Russell's multifaceted life and ever-evolving contexts...Philip Ironside has written an intelligent and lucid book of interest not merely to specialists on Russell's life and thought but also to students of public life, social theory, and political debate in modern Britain." Victorian Studies

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A young man of character; 2. Fellow-travelling with the Fabians; 3. Out of the moral gymnasium; 4. Political science; 5. The sage of Caxton Hall; 6. Anarchist tendencies; 7. Russia, China and the West; 8; The Wellsian trajectory; 9. Ideologies and dystopias; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

"Ironside's analysis is presented with enviable clarity and much good humor, and offers a shrewd sense of the trajectory of Russell's multifaceted life and ever-evolving contexts...Philip Ironside has written an intelligent and lucid book of interest not merely to specialists on Russell's life and thought but also to students of public life, social theory, and political debate in modern Britain." Victorian Studies

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A young man of character; 2. Fellow-travelling with the Fabians; 3. Out of the moral gymnasium; 4. Political science; 5. The sage of Caxton Hall; 6. Anarchist tendencies; 7. Russia, China and the West; 8; The Wellsian trajectory; 9. Ideologies and dystopias; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.