A dandy Tory.(Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister)(Book review)

From: National Review | Date: December 4, 2006| Author: Currie, Duncan | Copyright information

Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister, by Christopher Hibbert (Palgrave Macmillan, 432 pp., $29.95)

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

THE story is told that when Daniel Patrick Moynihan worked in the Nixon White House he gave his boss a list of classic political biographies. Nixon was especially interested in Lord Robert Blake's treatment of Benjamin Disraeli. "You know very well," the president reportedly told Moynihan, "that it is the Tory men with l...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Cradle of the system.(The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli)(Book review)
National Review ; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli, by Richard Aldous (Norton, 368 pp., $27.95) 'EVERY boy and every gal / That's born into the world alive / Is either a little Liberal / Or else a little Conservative. The bifurcated world thus summarized in Gilbert and
Sexual ambiguity in the life of Disraeli.(ESSAY)(Benjamin Disraeli)
The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide ; WIDESPREAD INDIGNATION at the suggestion that Abraham Lincoln might have enjoyed sharing his bed with other men, that he delayed marriage to make it last as long as he could, and that he occasionally returned to the practice even in the White House when Mrs. Lincoln was away, suggests the fragility
Dizzy's dominion.(Disraeli: A Personal History)(Book Review)
New Criterion ; Christopher Hibbert Disraeli: A Personal History. HarperCollins, 401 pages, 25 [pounds sterling] Britain during the nineteenth century was virtually free from the revolutionary turmoils that so weakened political and economic progress in continental Europe. Several factors favored Britain, but
Gladstone, Disraeli and the Bulgarian Horrors: Mark Rathbone compares Gladstone's and Disraeli's differing approaches to a crucial foreign policy issue.(The Unpredictable Past)(W.E. Gladstone)(Benjamin Disraeli)
History Review ; ... children died. Estimates of the number of victims, reported in newspapers at the time, varied between 10,000 and 25,000. When news of these events arrived in London, the Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, reacted by casting doubt on the accuracy ...
"Mosaic Arabs": Jews and gentlemen in Disraeli's Young England trilogy.(Benjamin Disraeli)(Critical essay)
Shofar ; Though converted to Christianity at an early age, Benjamin Disraeli, the popular novelist and prime minister under Queen Victoria, was outspokenly philosemitic. Fueled by contemporary ethnology and race theories, Disraeli argued that the Jews were a superior, aristocratic race destined to become