TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cash,Arthur H.
TI  - John Wilkes: the scandalous father of civil liberty 
SN  - 0300108710
AV  - DA512.W6 C37 2006
U1  - 941.073092 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Wilkes, John,
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Freedom of the press
KW  - Journalists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Politicians
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1760-1789
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 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
N2  - "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."--Jacket
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2005016633-b.html
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