{"product_id":"yobbery-under-arms-bonar-thompson-trevor-blake-ed","title":"Yobbery Under Arms | Bonar Thompson \u0026 Trevor Blake (ed)","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by mogtus-sanlux\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 978-1-944651-39-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e$16.50\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6 x 9\", 180 pp., paperback, matte cover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I don't see why a man should go out to work whilst he has the strength to stay in bed.” — Bonar Thompson, quoted in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFreedom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBonar Thompson was not a man improved by employment, authority, patriotic instruction, or the soft tyranny of sensible opinion. Born in County Antrim and eventually enthroned by reputation as the “Prime Minister of Hyde Park,” Thompson made his kingdom from a speaker’s platform, a black hat, an insolent tongue, and a genius for becoming unmanageable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYobbery Under Arms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of three perfectly balanced collections of Thompson’s writings, edited and introduced by Trevor Blake. Each volume stands alone, and there is no prescribed order of reading. Thompson himself would have likely advised you that every page is brilliant and that your only error was not having read him sooner.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis volume gathers essays and fugitive pieces from a writer who had known poverty, prison, crowds, causes, and the public appetite for being lied to loudly. He is comic, savage, vain, lucid, contradictory, and often correct in the most inconvenient way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlso available as part of a discounted three-volume Bonar Thompson bundle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"127 House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52404621410587,"sku":null,"price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0040\/0461\/0117\/files\/photo_2026-06-25_21-34-40.jpg?v=1782475073","url":"https:\/\/underworldamusements.com\/products\/yobbery-under-arms-bonar-thompson-trevor-blake-ed","provider":"Underworld Amusements","version":"1.0","type":"link"}