Gentleman Radical : Life of John Horne Tooke, 1736-1812

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A biography of John Horne Tooke a central figure in ministerial, extra-parliamentary and journalistic politics of the late eighteenth century. Tooke was the only man in England to be imprisoned for supporting the American Revolution, he was a principal agitator for Parliamentary reform and a close associate of the greatest radicals of the time.