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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
First-class treatment of the subject,
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This review is from: Charles James Fox (Penguin Popular Classics) (Paperback)
After finishing this book, it is hard to imagine there can be anything left to say about Charles James Fox. The familiar picture emerges of a politician who didn't have the skills or temperament of Pitt the Younger and hence was in opposition for most of his career. Yet Mitchell also makes two very interesting observations. First, Fox often preferred his private social life to politics. Did he, in fact, spend more time at the race track and at his London club than at the House of Commons? Secondly, Fox was less of a radical than most of his contemporaries thought. He was not, for instance, especially keen on far-reaching parliamentary reform. A big thumbs-up for this biography, not least for quoting verbatim from the strong language of certain original sources!
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Charles James Fox by L. G. Mitchell (Hardcover - July 9, 1992)
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