Disraeli A Brief Life

Disraeli A Brief Life by Paul Smith, published by Cambridge University Press on March 25, 1999, offers a fresh account of Benjamin Disraeli’s life. This edition spans 260 pages and is presented in English. The book explores Disraeli’s unique character, highlighting the complexities of his identity as a blend of Jewishness and Anglicanism, as well as his roles as both an outsider and an insider in British society.
Readers will find an examination of how these dualities shaped Disraeli’s political and personal life, portraying him as a nationalist and European figure, a Romantic and a Tory. The narrative delves into his appeal as an original personality, emphasizing his distinctive presence in public life. This insightful exploration of Disraeli’s multifaceted identity provides a nuanced understanding of his contributions to history and politics in Great Britain and Europe.
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In this fresh account of Benjamin Disraeli’s life, Paul Smith looks at his unique character as a fusion of Jewishness and Anglicanism, outsider and insider, nationalist and European, Romantic and Tory; and shows how this formed his “appeal as an original and a card, the most piquant joker in the pack”, a faintly raffish outsider who scaled the highest peaks of public life.
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