'A book like this can be but a bare outline of a life so full as that of William Cobbett.' -- G. K. Chesterton

About the Author
G. K. Chesterton was a journalist, a poet, a playwright, and the author of more than 80 books, including Heretics, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Man Who Was Thursday, and Orthodoxy. He wrote more than 4,000 articles in 125 different periodicals, on topics ranging from travel and economics to politics, religion, and philosophy. Stewart Weaver is a professor of British history at the University of Rochester and the author of Fallen Giants and The Hammonds: A Marriage in History. He lives in Rochester, New York. James Bemis is an editorial board member, a weekly columnist, and a film critic for California Political Review. He lives in Simi Valley, California.