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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 ...

Books: Rebel Disraeli. 7 minute read. TIME. August 2, 1943 12:00 AM GMT-4. JUDAH P. BENJAMIN—Robert Douthat Meade—Oxford ($3.75). The man whom Abraham Lincoln called the smartest of the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The book is full of wonderfully observed detail, ... Disraeli "wears two greatcoats and a waistcoat as protection against the elements", she writes, ...

But Hay’s is a relatively slim book and deals almost exclusively with the Disraeli marriage, a remarkable fusion of pragmatism, fiction, propriety, strategy and, eventually yes, deep and abiding ...

Benjamin Disraeli remains one of Britain's greatest, ... Book Review: Disraeli: Or, The Two Lives BY Douglas Hurd and Edward Young, W&N, £20. By Leo McKinstry. 00:00, Fri, Jul 19, 2013.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - Jabez Hughes /Bridgeman Art Library 28,193 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?28,193 people played the ...