Charles James Fox

by L.G. Mitchell

Book Overview

Charles James Fox was one of the most colorful figures in eighteenth-century politics. Notorious for the excesses of his private life, he was at the same time one of the leading politicians of his generation, dominating the Whig party and polite society. As the political rival of Pitt the Younger and the intellectual rival of Edmund Burke, his views on the major issues of the day--the American War of Independence, the French Revolution, parliamentary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198201044
• ISBN13: 9780198201045
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"