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Edmund Burke and Charles Fox made common political cause in eighteenth-century Britain 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 were an improbable pair. But the hard-drinking, mistress-collecting Fox loved and admired Burke, feelings that the clean-living political philosopher and statesman warmly reciprocated. They moved together in the London intellectual world and jointly opposed what they regarded as the overreaching crown. Friends Until the End traces Burke and Fox's relationship through three great 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. With wit and panache, James Grant illuminates the politics and economics of their era and its lessons for our divided present.

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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

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James Grant founded Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, a financial markets journal, and authored Bagehot and The Forgotten Depression, which won the Hayek Prize. His writing has appeared in the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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