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Free-Born John: John Lilburne: Biography of John Lilburne
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Product Description
This is the biography of the leader of the Levellers, whose unflagging opposition to authority resulted from a fight for civil liberty. Although pilloried by the Star Chamber, imprisoned by the Long Parliament and twice put on trial for his life, he never ceased his fight for the ordinary citizen.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #468189 in Books
- Published on: 2000-11-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 432 pages
Customer Reviews
Definitive account of the human struggle in the Civil War
Free Born John is the definitive biography of a neglected but decisive figure in English history, the Leveller leader John Lilburne.
Gregg's account focuses on the Levellers' fight for legal and political rights for ordinary people, a story which has many parallels with strugges for human rights around the world today.
She shows how Lilburne used propaganda and mass organisation in a way which made him arguably the first modern political activist, and the Levellers the first modern poitical movement.
Its particularly good on the network of underground printing presses which sustained the Puritan underground opposition to Charles II.
Required reading for anyone who wants to understand the human struggle underneath the costume drama of the English Civil War.
