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John Wilkes The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
by Cash, Arthur H.
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- Comments: A highly entertaining biography of the incredible John Wilkes, champion of liberty and irrepressible libertine."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[A] superb biography. . . . After...
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- ISBN-13: 9780300123630
- ISBN: 0300123639
- Publication Date: 2007
- Publisher: Yale University Press
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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.Cash, Arthur H. is the author of 'John Wilkes The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty', published 2007 under ISBN 9780300123630 and ISBN 0300123639.
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