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Legacies: Friends Until the End -- The Intellectual Legacies of American Independence
Join James Grant, author of Friends Until The End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution, as he dives into his dual biography of two great English orators of the 18th century who cultivated a friendship across their political differences. Edmund Burke and Charles Fox did not share social position, a way of life, a political legacy, or even a generation—but improbably, they were friends.
With wit and panache, James Grant traces their 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. Burke and Fox have left lasting intellectual legacies, which James Grant will explore broadly in this fascinating discussion.
*** Books will be available for purchase at Dock Street Theatre thanks to our onsite pop-up bookstore by Buxton Books. There will be a book signing following the program. ***
Featured Speaker: James Grant
James Grant is a financial journalist, historian, and the founder and editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the investment markets that he has published since 1983. A former Navy gunner's mate, he is a Phi Beta Kappa alumnus of Indiana University and holds a master's degree in international relations from Columbia University. His books include Money of the Mind (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992); The Forgotten Depression, 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself (Simon & Schuster, 2014), which won the 2015 Hayek Prize of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; John Adams: Party of One (Farrar, Straus, 2005), a biography of the second president of the United States; and Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution, a dual biography of two great English orators of the eighteenth century who supported the rebellious American colonies, defended religious liberty, and cultivated an improbable friendship across their deepest political differences — a friendship ultimately shattered by the French Revolution. His journalism has appeared in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs.
Join James Grant, author of Friends Until The End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution, as he dives into his dual biography of two great English orators of the 18th century who cultivated a friendship across their political differences. Edmund Burke and Charles Fox did not share social position, a way of life, a political legacy, or even a generation—but improbably, they were friends.
With wit and panache, James Grant traces their 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. Burke and Fox have left lasting intellectual legacies, which James Grant will explore broadly in this fascinating discussion.
*** Books will be available for purchase at Dock Street Theatre thanks to our onsite pop-up bookstore by Buxton Books. There will be a book signing following the program. ***
Featured Speaker: James Grant
James Grant is a financial journalist, historian, and the founder and editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the investment markets that he has published since 1983. A former Navy gunner's mate, he is a Phi Beta Kappa alumnus of Indiana University and holds a master's degree in international relations from Columbia University. His books include Money of the Mind (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992); The Forgotten Depression, 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself (Simon & Schuster, 2014), which won the 2015 Hayek Prize of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; John Adams: Party of One (Farrar, Straus, 2005), a biography of the second president of the United States; and Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution, a dual biography of two great English orators of the eighteenth century who supported the rebellious American colonies, defended religious liberty, and cultivated an improbable friendship across their deepest political differences — a friendship ultimately shattered by the French Revolution. His journalism has appeared in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs.
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