What Price Liberty

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Join the first, most comprehensive discussion on 'liberty' - the defining issue of the twenty-first century. with fear of terrorism, crime and social chaos putting our ideal of individual liberty very much into retreat, how can we maintain the principles we fought so hard to attain

History provides a guide to answering this question. What Price Liberty takes us through four centuries of civil liberty; how it was constructed, and has been rethought and re-fought to adapt to new circumstances. An essential and utterly enlightening discussion. What Price Liberty provides the material and arguments with which we can make sense of our times.

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Ben Wilson was born in 1980 and studied history at Cambridge, both as an undergraduate and postgraduate. He is the author of two previous critically-acclaimed books, The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for the Free Press and Decency and Disorder: The Age of Cant 1789-1837.