Christopher Hibbert

Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The acclaimed biographer chronicles the life and times of the Victorian statesman who crossed class boundaries to become prime minister.

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", 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.N. Wilson).

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250102782
• Artikelnr.: 43833690

Autorenporträt

Christopher Hibbert was born in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oxford. He is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici; The English: A Social History; and Cavaliers and Roundheads. He has also written 'biographies' of London, Rome, and Venice, and the lives of Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth I, and Napoleon and his women.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Part One: 1804-46
Boyhood
A Young Man of High Fashion
A Continental Holiday
Mental Breakdown
Travels and Adventures
'The Jew d'Esprit'
The Candidate
Affairs
The Reforming Tory
Debts and Duns
The Member for Maidstone
'Most Brilliant and Triumphant Speeches'
'A Pretty Little Woman, a Flirt and a Rattle'
A Troubled Courtship
A Happy Marriage
The Brilliant Orator
Young England
Coningsby and Sybil
Damning Attacks
Tancred
Part Two: 1846-81
The Jockey and the Jew
The Country Gentleman
The Chancellor
Marital Difficulties
Balls and Banquets
Visits and Visitors
Fetes and Follies
Distinguished Persons and Private Secretaries
The 'Potent Wizard'
A Guest as Balmoral and Osborne
Ministed in Attendance
The Widower
Female Friends
Prime Minister Again
Troubles at Court
Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden
Berlin
The 'Guardian Angel'
The Last Act
'A Wise and Worldly Man'
References
Index