Political Writings (Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson) - Softcover

Johnson, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865972753 ISBN 13: 9780865972759

Publisher: Liberty Fund, 2000

Synopsis

The eighteenth century produced a remarkable array of thinkers whose influence in the development of free societies and free institutions is incalculable. Among these thinkers were Mandeville, Hutcheson, Smith, Hume, and Burke; their time is known as the Age of Johnson. Samuel Johnson: Political Writings contains twenty-four of Johnson’s essays on the great social, economic, and political issues of his time. These include “Taxation No Tyranny”—in which Johnson defended the British Crown against the American revolutionaries—and “An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain,” “Thoughts on the Coronation of King George III,” and “The Patriot,” which is one of Johnson’s principal writings during the American Revolution.

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About the Author:

Jack Lynch, a Johnson scholar and professor of English at Rutgers University, is the editor of "Samuel Johnson's Dictionary" and the author of "The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson,"

About this edition

• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0865972753
• ISBN 13: 9780865972759
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 526
• Editor: Greene Donald J.