THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF BRITAIN; OR, AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF ABUSES IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AMERICA. FROM THE REVOLUTION IN 1688, TO THE PRESENT TIME. THE WHOLE TENDING TO PROVE THE RUINOUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE POPULAR SYSTEM OF TAXATION, WAR, AND CONQUEST

[Callender, James T.]

Edité par Daniel Isaac Eaton, Printer and Bookseller to the Supreme Majesty of the People, at the Cock and Swine, London, England, 1795

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Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.25 in., pp. 156. First complete edition (first published as pamphlet in 1792). Rebound in brown cloth boards. Gilt title on red panel, and gilt bandlines, to spine. Newer endpapers. Unmarked: pages are bright. James Thomson Callender (1758 - 1803) was a political pamphleteer and journalist whose writing was controversial in his native Scotland and later, also in the United States. He was not given a formal education but secured employment as a sub-clerk in the Edinburgh Sasine office, the equivalent of the Recorder of Deeds. While working in that office, Callender published satirical pamphlets criticizing the writer Samuel Johnson. "Deformities of Samuel Johnson", published anonymously, appealed to Scottish sentiments. Later he wrote pamphlets attacking political corruption. Callender's political writings were tinged with radical democratic egalitarianism, Scottish nationalism, and a pessimistic view of human nature. An admirer of Jonathan Swift, Callender sought to cut the wealthy and the powerful down to size in his writing. . In 1792 he published The Political Progress of Britain, a critique of war, imperialism, and corruption. He fled to Ireland and to the United States to avoid prosecution. After Callender left Scotland, Lord Gardenstone exposed him as the author; the journalist's reputation also was marred by the rumor that he had implicated Gardenstone . (Later) In the United States, he was a central figure in the press wars between the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. After Jefferson won the presidency, Callender solicited employment as a postmaster, which was denied by Jefferson. Callender then published existing rumors claiming President Jefferson had children with slave Sally Hemings. Subsequently, he was imprisoned under the Alien and Sedition Acts, and later turned against his one-time Democratic-Republican patrons. (from Wikipedia).

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• Titre: THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF BRITAIN; OR, AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF ABUSES IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AMERICA. FROM THE REVOLUTION IN 1688, TO THE PRESENT TIME. THE WHOLE TENDING TO PROVE THE RUINOUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE POPULAR SYSTEM OF TAXATION, WAR, AND CONQUEST
• Éditeur: Daniel Isaac Eaton, Printer and Bookseller to the Supreme Majesty of the People, at the Cock and Swine, London, England
• Date de parution: 1795
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Third edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good Plus
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