Plutarch’s portrayal of parallel lives is the paradigm James Grant pursues in his dynamic dual biography of Edmund Burke and Charles Fox, two politicians and orators of markedly different ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. O’Brien turns his back on Burke the political philosopher. That Burke has enjoyed the attention and patronage of ...
Talk about timing. James Grant’s new joint biography of Edmund Burke and Charles Fox coming as it does on the eve of the 250th anniversary of American independence is a book to read. It’s by the ...
In “Friends Until the End,” James Grant explores the political passions and inspiring oratory of the British parliamentarians Edmund Burke and Charles Fox. By Leo Damrosch Leo Damrosch is the author ...