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When Benjamin Disraeli was 12 years old, his family converted from Judaism to Christianity. Yet the Christian convert who became the United Kingdom's first (and, to date, only) prime minister with ...

The book has wonderful anecdotes especially to do with Disraeli’s colourful private life. At the age of 36 he owed in today’s terms 2 million pounds and he had to become an MP, as this would ...

Disraeli’s literary career had an unpromising start. In 1826, well before he entered politics, he published his first novel, Vivian Grey, a coming-of-age tale of aristocratic escapades which was ...

Did Benjamin and Mary Anne, a self-made odd couple, create a convenient fiction of devotion for the voters? Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance By Daisy Hay, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 ...

If Benjamin Disraeli were alive today he would despair of our banal politicians, who operate without wit, imagination or courage, argue Douglas Hurd and Edward Young Britain mourned the death of ...