Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England - Cannon, John (Emeritus Professor of History, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

This is a lively new reinterpretation of Georgian political life, by a leading historian of the eighteenth century. Using the career of Samuel Johnson as a point of entry, John Cannon explores major contemporary issues and offers a substantial modification to the traditional picture of Hanoverian England.