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Civil libertine ~ John Wilkes loved civil liberties as much as he loved sex [audio 10min]

John Wilkes was an 18th-century libertine, philanderer and author of what has been called the dirtiest poem in the English language. He was also a civil liberties pioneer, one of the first stalwarts of the free press. Brooke probes Arthur H. Cash, author of John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty about Wilkes’s illustrious, debaucherous career.
Read entire article at WYNC "On the Media"