Tyrannicide Brief The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold

Name: Tyrannicide Brief The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
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ISBN: 9780307386373

ISBN-10: 0307386376

ISBN-13: 9780307386373

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Authors: Geoffrey Robertson

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Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke, whose Puritan conscience, political vision, and love of civil liberties gave him the courage to bring the king to trial. As a result, Charles I was beheaded, but eleven years later Cooke himself was arrested, tried, and executed at the hands of Charles II. Geoffrey Robertson, a renowned human rights lawyer, provides a vivid new reading of the tumultuous Civil War years, exposing long-hidden truths: that the king was guilty, that his…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/9/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English