John Wilkes : the scandalous father of civil liberty / Arthur H. Cash
- Bib ID:
- 3968079
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- Book
- Author:
- Cash, Arthur H. (Arthur Hill), 1922-
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006
- xiii, 482 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780300108712
- 0300108710
- Summary:
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"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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- The making of a gentleman
- The squire of Aylesbury
- Into Parliament
- The North Briton
- Number 45
- The Great George Street printing shop
- Trials and a trial of honor
- Exile
- The Middlesex election controversy
- Incapacitation
- The City of London
- My lord mayor
- Poverty, paternity, and parliamentary reform
- Chamberlain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-463) and index.
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- Until 2092 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2022
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2006
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