William Cobbett: Englishman, a BiographyAurum, 1997 - 275 pagina's A biography of the English radical, William Cobbett who was born in 1763 and died in 1835 and was considered to be the very embodiment of John Bull. Burton documents his activities and articles, court cases, bankruptcies and imprisonment in the light of this attitude. |
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