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The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett (Paperback)
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A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of one of England's greatest
radicals. The early years of the 19th-century were ones of misery
and oppression. The common people were forced into conditions of
extreme poverty by enclosures and the Agricultural Revolution, and
the long Tory administration of Lord Liverpool saw its task as
keeping law and order at all costs. The cause of reform was a
dangerous one, as William Cobbett was to find. Cobbett is best
known for his 'Rural Rides', a classic account of
early-19th-century Britain which has never been out of print. But
he was a much greater figure than that implies, being the foremost
satirist and proponent of reform of the time. He had a taste for
provoking the deceit and vanity of the supposedly good and great,
and had an abiding hatred of the establishment, or 'The Thing', as
he christened it. In the pages of his 'Political Register' he
lambasted corruption and excoriated hypocrisy, and was forever in
fear of prosecution for libel, for which he was sent to Newgate
prison for two years, which was the cause of his bankruptcy and
forced him to flee to America. For all that the establishment
loathed and feared him, the people loved him, and he was greeted by
adoring crowds wherever he went. He was a hero of his time, and
Richard Ingram's admirable biography is both judicious, moving,
sometimes funny and always utterly engaging.
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