The Life of Benjamin Disraeli
Author | : William Flavelle Monypenny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Flavelle Monypenny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adam Kirsch |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A portrait of Benjamin Disraeli offers a study of the former British prime minister's lifelong struggle with his Jewish identity, as well as his flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his attitude toward the Middle East and its future.
Author | : Benjamin Disraeli |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1982-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1442639547 |
The 334 letters in this volume cover the period from Disraeli's establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst to his election to parliament in 1837. The most important issue to which they speak is the course of Disraeli's political ambitions. In 1835 the road to parliament was not yet clear, for he continued to be haunted by troubles from his past. He was beset by charges of opportunism in his Taunton campaign of 1835, and the longest letters here are those to Edwards Beadon written in justification of past conduct; Disraeli had still to learn the truth of his later dictum, 'never explain.' Also, debts contracted many years before continued to plague him, as they would in years to come. He was tempted by a variety of money-making schemes and the later correspondence makes clear just how close he came to permanent ruin at the hands of his creditors in the spring of 1837. Had the fate of debtors' prison materialized it is doubtful that he would ever have been eligible, in law or in reputation, for a parliamentary career. Disraeli's eventual election for Maidstone in the summer of 1837 marked the emergence of his formal public role. Because he set out early and was a long time in attaining his goals, one is tempted to laud his patience. But the record here suggests that it was instead a matter of energy and endurance. This volume of the Letters brings Disraeli to the threshold of the Victorian era and the beginning of his career as a politician. In late 1837 he failed in his maiden speech, but all major successes lay ahead.
Author | : Frederick Carroll Brewster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Benjamin Disraeli |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802099491 |
This volume collects 556 of Disraeli's letters from a tumultuous period in European history – years that witnessed the Italian revolution, the Polish revolt against Russia, anxiety about Napoleon III's intentions in Europe, and the American Civil War.
Author | : Robert Blake |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 2012-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0571287557 |
First published in 1966, Robert Blake's biography of Disraeli is one of the supreme political biographies of the last hundred years. An outsider, a nationalist, a European, a Romantic and a Tory - Disraeli's story is an extraordinary one. Born in 1804, the grandson of an immigrant Italian Jew, he became leader of the Conservative Party and was twice Prime Minister. Famous for the 1867 Reform Act, his purchasing of the Suez Canal and his diplomatic triumphs at the Congress of Berlin, he was also the creator of the political novel and, in Sybil, wrote the major 'Condition of England' work of fiction. 'An outstandingly successful biography . . . Disraeli has never been brought so vividly to life.' Sir Philip Magnus, Daily Telegraph 'A huge, scholarly and remarkably readable work which makes us revise vast tracts of our assumptions about nineteenth-century politics.' Sir Michael Howard, Sunday Times 'A book that people will still be reading in fifty years' time and long after.' Times Literary Supplement
Author | : Benjamin Disraeli |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802029270 |
Part of the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series. This volume contains or describes letters written by Disraeli between 1848 and 1851.
Author | : Benjamin Disraeli |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802041371 |
The latest volume in the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series contains or describes 952 letters (778 perviously unpublished) written by Disraeli between 1852 and 1856.
Author | : David Cesarani |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300221894 |
Lauded as a “great Jew,” excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain’s most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways did he contribute to Jewish causes? In this groundbreaking, lucid investigation of Disraeli’s life and accomplishments, David Cesarani draws a new portrait of one of Europe’s leading nineteenth-century statesmen, a complicated, driven, opportunistic man. While acknowledging that Disraeli never denied his Jewish lineage, boasted of Jewish achievements, and argued for Jewish civil rights while serving as MP, Cesarani challenges the assumption that Disraeli truly cared about Jewish issues. Instead, his driving personal ambition required him to confront his Jewishness at the same time as he acted opportunistically. By creating a myth of aristocratic Jewish origins for himself, and by arguing that Jews were a superior race, Disraeli boosted his own career but also contributed to the consolidation of some of the most fundamental stereotypes of modern antisemitism.
Author | : William Flavelle Monypenny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |