Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution

A lively dual biography of the two great English orators of the eighteenth century, who cultivated a friendship across their political differences.

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 pos...