John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty

Pulitzer Prize Finalist: A biography of the wildly colorful eighteenth-century British politician who became "the toast of American revolutionaries" (Booklist).

One of the most colorful figures in English political history, John Wilkes (1726–97) is remembered as the father of the British free press, a defender of civil and political liberties—and a hero to American colonists. Wilkes's political career was rancorous, involving duels, imprisonments in the Tower of London, and the Massacre o...