"Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann (The old Jew, he is the man)." So said German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck about British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, in reference to who was the center of ...

Veteran historian Hibbert summons up the ghost of Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), who along with Gladstone dominated English politics in the Victorian era. Hibbert finds Disraeli's character and ...

Adam Kirsch, “Benjamin Disraeli” (Nextbook: Schocken, 2008 ) $21.00. Benjamin Disraeli was born Jewish, baptized as a boy but (mostly) considered himself to be Jewish. He famously proclaimed to Queen ...

Over one hundred days after leaving office, former Prime Minister Liz Truss unveiled the autopsy of her forty-nine days in power. Blaming “a very powerful economic establishment” for the failure of ...

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When Lytton Strachey’s “Eminent Victorians” was published, in 1918, it included, in addition to the portraits of his leading characters, cameos of almost all the other famous Victorians: Cardinal ...

Disraeli and Gladstone were both politicians of extraordinary ability - but their personalities clashed and they heartily loathed each other. Robert Blake, the British constitutional historian, ...