This Happy Land

Although Cobbett's writings as Peter Porcupine have received much attention from his many biographers and critics, his later writings on America during the thirty years from 1802-1835 have been almost completely ignored. Yet they give a unique picture of those important and turbulent years when relations between Britain and the United States were at their lowest ebb. Cobbett's penetrating and often witty analysis of the issues involved, enlivedned by his sometimes wicked sketches of the protagonists in the disputes, make compelling reading.