| Disraeli Contributor(s): Hibbert, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403978964 ISBN-13: 9781403978967 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $25.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: In this masterly biography Hibbert reveals the personal life of one of the most fascinating men of the 19th century and England's most eccentric prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 6.64" W x 9.18" (1.08 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: To Thomas Carlyle he was not worth his weight in cold bacon, but, to Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli was the kindest Minister she had ever had and a dear and devoted friend. In this masterly biography by England's outstanding popular historian (A.N. Wilson), Christopher Hibbert reveals the personal life of one of the most fascinating men of the nineteenth century and England's most eccentric Prime Minister. A superb speaker, writer, and wit, Disraeli did not intend to be a politician. Born into a family of Jewish merchants, Disraeli was a conspicuous dandy, constantly in debt, and enjoyed many scandalous affairs until, in 1839, he married an eccentric widow twelve years older than him. As an antidote to his grief at his wife's death in 1872, he threw himself into politics becoming Prime Minister for the second time in 1874, much to the Queen's delight. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hibbert, Christopher: - Christopher Hibbert (1924-2008), "a pearl of biographers" (New Statesman), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of Disraeli (St. Martin's Press), The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, The English: A Social History, and Cavaliers and Roundheads. He lived in Oxfordshire, England. |