John Wilkes
The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
Cash, Arthur H.
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BOOK SUMMARY
A highly entertaining biography of the incredible John Wilkes, champion of liberty and irrepressible libertine
BOOK SYNOPSIS
One of the most colorful figures in English political history, John Wilkes (1726-97) is remembered as the father of the British free press, defender of civil and political liberties, and hero to American colonists, who attended closely to his outspoken endorsements of liberty. Wilkes's political career was rancorous, involving duels, imprisonments in the Tower of London, and the Massacre of St. George's Fields in which seven of his supporters were shot to death by government troops. He was equally famous for his "private" life--a confessed libertine, a member of the notorious Hellfire Club, and the author of what has been called the dirtiest poem in the English language.
This lively biography draws a full portrait of John Wilkes from his childhood days through his heyday as a journalist and agitator, his defiance of government prosecutions for libel and obscenity, his fight against exclusion from Parliament, and his service as lord mayor of London on the eve of the American Revolution. Told here with the force and immediacy of a firsthand newspaper account, Wilkes's own remarkable story is inseparable from the larger story of modern civil liberties and how they came to fruition.
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"It is difficult to believe that John Wilkes, a notorious womanizer and scandal-monger, was a genuine hero of civil liberties and political democracy on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 18th century, but hero he was and in this engaging book Arthur Cash gives Wilkes the serious treatment he has long deserved."-Eric Foner, Columbia University
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0300108710
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300108712
Copyright: 2006
Dewey Decimal: 941.07/3/092
Library of Congress: 2005016633
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 482
Paper Weight (lb): 1.90 lb
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