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Benjamin Disraeli. Tory. Prime Minister. Victorian. R.W. Davis
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DISRAELI
AUTHOR: R.W. Davis
PUBLISHED: Hutchinson, London. 1976
FORMAT: Hb, 231pp, index
CONDITION: Used...ex-library book, so expect library stamps / marks / stickers.
Dust-jacket, worn / creased, a little tatty.
Book itself in good sound 7 generally clean condition.
In Tory politics of the 19th century there is no name that arouses such deep reaction as that of Benjamin Disraeli, the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield.
He was the politician most loved by Queen Victoria and the man who made her Empress of India. Few Prime Ministers before or since have shown his flair for the theatrical or or a self-confidence which allowed him to borrow two million pounds without the sanction of Parliament for the famous Suez Canal Purchase.
And yet this man, a Jew by birth, came to power at a time when Catholics were not allowed to sit for Parliament and when the Whig reformers appeared to hold all the trump cards in an age of change.
By his death he had combined with politics the career of a successful novelist and had reformed Tory policies into the Conservatism that we know.
Having been excluded from Peel’s cabinet early in his career and served in a succession of minority governments, it was in 1868 that Disraeli first became Prime Minister. His rise “to the top of the greasy pole”, as he himself described his career, was full of changes of policy fine rhetoric and confusing political stances.
He was devious in the extreme, putting himself before principles or party, as his novels often show, and yet he was a success in both his careers. His charm and flattery of Victoria was only rivalled by his witty destructions of Gladstone on the floor of the House. His triumph above all was that of opportunismover that of principle and it is for this that Dizzy will be chiefly remembered.
The rise of this landless, dandyish Jew to the pinnacle of the Tory party is a fascinating one. How did this obscure man come to dominate the richest and most hide-bound party in Great Britain ?
The answers to that question, as well as Disraeli’s influence on his times, his personality, and his private life are all evaluated in this notably even-handed study. The author shows a man whose style both in and out of Parliament made him, despite his faults, one of our best remembered Prime Ministers. He shows us a man who for the most selfish of reasons did more to change our democracy than any other of his age.
He was the politician most loved by Queen Victoria and the man who made her Empress of India. Few Prime Ministers before or since have shown his flair for the theatrical or or a self-confidence which allowed him to borrow two million pounds without the sanction of Parliament for the famous Suez Canal Purchase.
And yet this man, a Jew by birth, came to power at a time when Catholics were not allowed to sit for Parliament and when the Whig reformers appeared to hold all the trump cards in an age of change.
By his death he had combined with politics the career of a successful novelist and had reformed Tory policies into the Conservatism that we know.
Having been excluded from Peel’s cabinet early in his career and served in a succession of minority governments, it was in 1868 that Disraeli first became Prime Minister. His rise “to the top of the greasy pole”, as he himself described his career, was full of changes of policy fine rhetoric and confusing political stances.
He was devious in the extreme, putting himself before principles or party, as his novels often show, and yet he was a success in both his careers. His charm and flattery of Victoria was only rivalled by his witty destructions of Gladstone on the floor of the House. His triumph above all was that of opportunismover that of principle and it is for this that Dizzy will be chiefly remembered.
The rise of this landless, dandyish Jew to the pinnacle of the Tory party is a fascinating one. How did this obscure man come to dominate the richest and most hide-bound party in Great Britain ?
The answers to that question, as well as Disraeli’s influence on his times, his personality, and his private life are all evaluated in this notably even-handed study. The author shows a man whose style both in and out of Parliament made him, despite his faults, one of our best remembered Prime Ministers. He shows us a man who for the most selfish of reasons did more to change our democracy than any other of his age.
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