The Laughter of Triumph

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Ben Wilson

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Faber & Faber

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20/04/2006

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Ben Wilson|Paperback|Faber & Faber|20/04/2006

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Satirist William Hone is the forgotten hero of the British press. In 1817 he was forced to defend himself against a censorious government, in what amounted to a show trial pitting a self-educated Fleet Street journalist against the Lord Chief Justice and a hand-picked jury. Hone's crime was to ridicule the powers that be. Through Hone's life, Ben Wilson looks at the history of the struggle for free expression against repressive law.

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