{"product_id":"the-life-and-adventures-of-william-cobbett","title":"The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett","description":"A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of William Cobbett  one of Englands greatest radicals. The early years of the nineteenth century were ones of misery and oppression. The common people were thrown into conditions of extreme poverty by enclosures and the Agricultural Revolution  and the long Tory administration of Lord Liverpool saw its task as keeping law and order at all costs. The cause of reform was a dangerous one  as William Cobbett was to find. Cobbett is best known for his Rural Rides  that classic account of early-nineteenth century Britain which has never been out of print. But he was a much greater figure than that implies  being the foremost satirist and proponent of reform of the time. He had an invincible stomach for provoking the deceit and vanity of the supposedly good and great  and had an abiding hatred of the establishment  or The Thing  as he christened it. In the pages of his Political Register he lambasted corruption and excoriated hypocrisy  and walked forever in fear of prosecution for libel  for which he was sent to Newgate prison for two years  suffered bankruptcy and was forced to flee to America. For all that the establishment loathed and feared him  the people loved him  and he was greeted by adoring crowds wherever he went. He was a hero of his time  and Richard Ingramss admirable biography is both judicious  moving  sometimes funny and always utterly engaging.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44909620363317,"sku":"ByrdShop_0002558009","price":92.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0002558009.jpg?v=1768128993","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-life-and-adventures-of-william-cobbett","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}