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John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
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John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty Hardcover - 2006

by Cash, Arthur H

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New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. Very Good condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with a few portraits/engravings. 2006. First printing of the First Edition with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Glossary. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original black boards, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "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.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xiii, 482pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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  • Title John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
  • Author Cash, Arthur H
  • Illustrator NOT a library discard
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing of the First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good condition
  • Pages 482
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven and London
  • Date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 027458
  • ISBN 9780300108712 / 0300108710
  • Weight 1.91 lbs (0.87 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.42 x 1.42 in (24.08 x 16.31 x 3.61 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Politics and government -, Journalists - Great Britain
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005016633
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Arthur H. Cashis Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of English, State University of New York at New Paltz, and biographer of Laurence Sterne."

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