Download or read book John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty written by Peter D. G. Thomas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That he was a political maverick, of witty and wicked reputation, has led historians to underestimate him, and this is the first researched biography since 1917. Contemporaries appreciated his achievements more that posterity, one obituarist writing that 'his name will be connected with our history'.