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Richard Lee Bradshaw (Xlibris), Manhattan Beach, California, 2010. Paperback, 439 pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with 34 black-and-white figures; cover title dates (1602-1659). In Good+ condition. Olive green illustrated paper covers with an oval portrait of Bradshawe, white, yellow and black lettering on front cover and white lettering on spine; mild shelf and edge wear with bumping and creasing to edges and corners, most noticeable at lower right corner of rear cover. Binding tight. Light soiling and a few small puncture holes at bottom edge of frontispiece leaf. Inscribed, personalized and signed by the author on title page. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. [From back cover] Until now the history of John Bradshawe, Lord President of England's short-lived Republic, has been confined to footnotes in the biographies of other men. The author of this first full-length survey of Bradshawe's life draws from unpublished material to tell of a remarkable career during England's most turbulent period. John Milton said he exceeded the glory of all former tyrannicides. Dr. George Bate called him a "viper of hell." In 1775 Benjamin Franklin said John Bradshawe's deeds presented the most glorious example of unshaken virtue, love of freedom, and impartial justice ever exhibited on the blood-stained theater of human actions and urged that his memory be forever blessed. Contents: Introduction; The Bradshaw Family; Up to London and Gray's Inn; Every Subject Worse than a Turkish Slave; The Influence of Edward Coke, William Prynne, and John Lilburne; Back to the High Peak Forest; The Slide Toward War, Country Versus Court; The Committeeman; Time of Trial; Judgment Day; Execution; Keeping the Lid on Chaos; King Charles II Invades England; Subduing the Colonies, Breaking Bradshawe; The Wilderness Years; Bradshawe's Homes; Death and Resurrection; Remains and Remembrance; Appendices; Index.