Marx Brothers Minnie helped her younger brother Abraham Elieser Adolf Schönberg (stage name Al Shean) to enter show business; he became highly successful on vaudeville and Broadway as half of the musical comedy double act Gallagher and Shean, and this gave the brothers an entree to musical comedy, vaudeville and Broadway at Minnie's instigation. Minnie also acted as the brothers' manager, using the name Minnie Palmer so that agents did not realize that she was also their mother. All the brothers confirmed that Minnie Marx had been the head of the family and the driving force in getting the troupe launched, the
The Cambridge Companion to Marx appropriate to the book. Jacobs reviewed the book as part of a discussion of "The second wave of analytical Marxism". "The Cambridge Companion to Marx" was praised by the political scientist David McLellan in "The Thought of Karl Marx: An Introduction" (1995). The Cambridge Companion to Marx The Cambridge Companion to Marx is a 1991 collection of articles about Karl Marx edited by the political theorist Terrell Carver. The book received mixed reviews, questioning the inclusion or exclusion of particular topics, but praising some of the contributions. "The Cambridge Companion to Marx" contains articles that link Marx to contemporary questions