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...