Whig's Progress: Tom Wharton Between RevolutionsJ. Kent Clark
About the Author:
J. Kent Clark is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the California Institute of Technology. At Caltech he taught courses ranging from English composition to Shakespeare, the satirists, and twentieth-century poetry.
Whig's Progress traces the career of the Right Honorable Thomas Wharton, eventually fifth Baron, first Earl, and first Marquess of Wharton, from his birth during Oliver Cromwell's campaigns through the Glorious Revolution of 1688--through the rise, the fall, and the resurgence of the Whig party, which would ultimately lead. The narrative also follows Wharton through his education in France and his later adventures in duels, horse races, elections, parliamentary warfare, romance, and conspiracy. A biography of Wharton ("Tom," to his family, friends, and by 1680, to political England) involves an account of the tortuous Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, the formation of the Whig and Tory parties, and the intricacies of the Glorious Revolution. Without oversimplifying a very complex set of events, the author has made his treatment both accurate and readily comprehensible to twenty-first century readers. Clark has exhaustively searched through original documents and used primary sources as much as possible. He has also corrected many errors in secondary sources, producing a readable yet authoritative history of a major political figure in the Restoration era. ISBN 0-8386-3997-6, Price $55.00
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