The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke, 1552-1634 by Catherine Drinker Bowen

The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke, 1552-1634

Catherine Drinker Bowen

672 pages first pub 1957 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Sir Edward Coke was perhaps the pre-eminent jurist during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James of England. He was the prime author of the Petition of Right, so this biography is simultaneously the story of the roots of our form of free gov...

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