The Politics of Dr Johnson
by Donald Greene
British politics has a tradition of seeing the right as caricatured reactionaries, hard-hearted and callous, but Johnson was a self-proclaimed Tory and Greene shows him as he was – not the caricature at all, but a champion of the poor and oppressed.
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