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CHARLES JAMES FOX: A MAN FOR THE PEOPLE

by Loren Reid

Published by Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd.. 1st. 1969

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Charles James Fox was one of the most colourful, complex and controversial figures of eighteenth-century England. The book grows out of a professional interest in Fox's talents as a parliamentary speaker. The scope, therefore, is that of a biography, with Fox's attainments as a speaker coming to the foreground at frequent intervals. Light brown cloth boards, dark brown title block with silver title to spine. xiv and 475 pages including index.

Boards clean. Text block browned with some foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to flaps. Musty odour present.

Stock no. 1831000

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Contents

  • Foreword
  • PART ONE
  • Thrice In, Thrice Out
  • 1. Genesis of a Speaker
  • 2. Eton, Oxford, The Grand Tour
  • 3. The Phenomenon of the Age
  • 4. In and Out of Government
  • PART TWO
  • The Loyal Opposition
  • 5. Fox Discovers America
  • 6. Fox in Opposition
  • 7. A Speech Without a Reply
  • 8. Fox and North: Conflict
  • 9. Fox Goes to the People
  • 10. The Opposition Triumphs
  • 11. The First Foreign Secretary
  • 12. Road to Coalition
  • 13. Mr Secretary Fox
  • 14. The India Bill
  • 15. The Westminster Election
  • 16. Mr Pitt and Mr Fox
  • 17. Fox, The Prince and Mrs Fitzherbert
  • 18. The King's Illness
  • PART THREE
  • Man of the People
  • 19. Genesis of a New Whig
  • 20. Defender of Political Liberty
  • 21. War with France
  • 22. For Freedom of Speech
  • 23. Great Whig
  • 24. Speaker for the People
  • PART FOUR
  • Long Road Back
  • 25. Secession; St Anne's Hill
  • 26. Quest for Peace
  • 27. Pitt Resigns: Secession Continues
  • 28. Road to War
  • 29. Fox and Pitt in Opposition
  • 30. Pitt Dies, Fox Takes Office
  • 31. Death of Fox
  • 32. Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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