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Cash, Arthur H.
(Arthur Hill),
1922-
25017
John Wilkes
[electronic resource] :
the scandalous father of civil liberty /
Arthur H. Cash.
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c2006.
1 online resource (xiii, 482 p.) :
ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-463) and index.
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.
One of the most colourful 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 dead by government troops. And 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 liberties and how they came to fruition.
Wilkes, John,
1725-1797.
25018
Freedom of the press
Great Britain
History
18th century.
25019
Civil rights
Great Britain
History
18th century.
25020
Politicians
Great Britain
Biography.
25021
Journalists
Great Britain
Biography.
25022
HISTORY.
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Persvrijheid.
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Politicians
Great Britain.
25024
Journalists
Great Britain.
25025
Great Britain
Politics and government
1760-1789.
25026
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პრესის თავისუფლება--
Electronic books.
Print version:
Cash, Arthur H. (Arthur Hill), 1922-
John Wilkes.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006
0300108710
9780300108712
(DLC) 2005016633
(OCoLC)60664320
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