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100 1 $aCash, Arthur H.$q(Arthur Hill),$d1922-2016.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85187534
245 10 $aJohn Wilkes :$bthe scandalous father of civil liberty /$cArthur H. Cash.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axiii, 482 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 451-463) and index.
520 1 $a"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.
600 10 $aWilkes, John,$d1725-1797.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021681
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1760-1789.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056907
650 0 $aFreedom of the press$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aCivil rights$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aPoliticians$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109706
650 0 $aJournalists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106192
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005016633.html
852 00 $bglx$hDA512.W6$iC37 2006
852 00 $boff,leh$hDA512.W6$iC37 2006