Disraeli

A Brief Life

By: Paul Smith

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Hardcover | 11 November 1996

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258 Pages

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This concise study of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) focuses on the substantial reassessment of Disraeli's career and personality that is currently taking place. Particular reference is made to the role played in Disraeli's conception of life and politics by his Jewishness and his romanticism. The book also seeks to understand Disraeli in a European as well as a British frame of thought. These new elements are set alongside all the principal biographical features of Disraeli's life and career. This "brief life" can therefore be read both as a standard, up-to-date biography of one of the greatest statesmen of the later Victorian age and as a reinterpretation of key aspects of Disraeli's life and times.

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'Paul Smith's new life of Disraeli is perfect ... It will entertain the general reader and prove invaluable to every History Sixth Form and college library.' History Today 'The great merit of Paul Smith's new brief study of Disraeli is that he interprets his subject as an artist who moulded both his identity and that of his political milieu until he could create a congenial political style ... enjoyable and highly intelligent.' London Review of Books 'He was without any rival whatever, the first comic genius whoever installed himself in Downing Street.' Michael Foot ' ... an excellent and enjoyable short biography of Disraeli. It is the mature work of an expert in the field, written succinctly and judiciously'. History

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Preface
Introduction
The theatre of life
The theatre of politics, 1832û1837
The theatre of parliament, 1837û1846
A leading part, 1846û1865
Top of the bill, 1865û1881
Envoi: the primrose sphinx
Notes
Index
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