William Cobbett (Annotated)

G. K. Chesterton's William Cobbett is a vigorous biographical study of the great English journalist, pamphleteer, farmer, and political agitator. Rather than offering a detached chronology, Chesterton presents Cobbett as a living force in English letters: earthy, combative, patriotic, and morally impatient. Written in Chesterton's paradoxical, aphoristic style, the book places Cobbett within the t...