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Friends Until the End

Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution

Narrated by Richard Trinder

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Pub Date Aug 12 2025 | Archive Date Aug 12 2025

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Description

In eighteenth-century Britain, Edmund Burke and Charles Fox made common political cause for twenty-five years. They supported the rebellious American colonies, attacked the British slave trade, defended religious liberty, and attempted to shield Britain's public credit from the crisis-prone East India Company. The two men did not share social position, a way of life, a political legacy, or even a generation—but improbably, they were friends. The hard-drinking, mistress-collecting Fox loved and admired Burke, feelings that the clean-living political philosopher and statesman warmly reciprocated. Friends Until the End tells the story of two men who hailed from different worlds, yet thrived together in the London intellectual sphere. With wit and panache, James Grant traces their relationship through three events: the American Revolution; the impeachment of the East India Company's governor-general; and the French Revolution, which ended their political union and shattered their friendship.

Fox and Burke were uniquely suited to their enduring careers marked by political opposition—they possessed the fluency, self-command, and principle that allowed them to resist, most often, what they regarded as an overreaching British crown. Along with the men's two remarkable lives, this book illuminates their era's politics, economics, and lessons for our divided times.

In eighteenth-century Britain, Edmund Burke and Charles Fox made common political cause for twenty-five years. They supported the rebellious American colonies, attacked the British slave trade...


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Advance Praise

"James Grant conveys the principles as brilliantly as he captures the personalities of Edmund Burke and Charles Fox, unlikely friends who remain lodestars for conservatives and liberals in the twenty-first century. Friends Until the End is a masterful study of what united these very different statesmen―and what ultimately drove them apart to give us the modern divide between left and right." ―Daniel McCarthy, editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review and contributing editor of The American Conservative

"James Grant conveys the principles as brilliantly as he captures the personalities of Edmund Burke and Charles Fox, unlikely friends who remain lodestars for conservatives and liberals in the...


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EDITION Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN 9798318511387
PRICE $24.99 (USD)
DURATION 17 Hours, 11 Minutes

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