The scandalous father of civil liberty
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
Print Book, English, 2006
Yale University Press, [Place of publication not identified], 2006