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Benjamin Disraeli. Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Adam Kirsch

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New York, NY Schocken, 2008. Hardcover First Edition (2008); First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First Edition (2008); First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Fine in Fine DJ: The Book is flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no discernible flaws. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Virtually 'As New'. The DJ is flawless; unclipped. As New. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.35 x 1 inches). xxiv, 258 pages. Language: English. Weight: 14.5 ounces. Black boards with bright silver titles at the backstrip. Nextbooks Jewish Encounters Series. Hardback with DJ. Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (1804 – 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the British Empire, and military action to expand it, both of which were popular among British voters at the time. He is the only British prime minister to have been of Jewish origin. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister. The renowned poet and critic Adam Kirsch here looks at Disraeli as a novelist as well as a statesman, recognizing that the outsider Jew who became one of the world's most powerful men was his own greatest "character".
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  • Title Benjamin Disraeli.
  • Author Adam Kirsch
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition First Edition (2008); First Printing indicated by a complete num
  • Pages 257
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Schocken,, New York, NY
  • Date 2008.
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 57001
  • ISBN 9780805242492 / 080524249X
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.5 x 1.08 in (19.56 x 13.97 x 2.74 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Prime ministers - Great Britain, Great Britain - Politics and government -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008001628
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies about the Middle East remain prophetically relevant today. How a man who was born a Jew--and who remained in the eyes of his countrymen a member of a despised minority--managed to become prime minister of England seems even today nothing short of miraculous.In this compelling biography, renowned poet and critic Adam Kirsch looks at Disraeli as a novelist as well as a statesman, recognizing that the outsider Jew who became one of the world's most powerful men was his own greatest character. Though baptized by his father at the age of twelve, Disraeli was seen--and saw himself--as a Jew. But her created an idea of Jewishness to rival the British notion of aristocracy.Disraeli was a figure of fascinating contradictions: an archconservative who benefited from England's liberal attitudes, a baptized Christian who saw Jewishness as a matter of racial superiority, a perennial outsider who dreamed of glory for England, which, in the words of one contemporary, became for Disraeli "the Israel of his imagination."From the Hardcover edition.

From the publisher

Adam Kirsch, a book critic for The New York Sun, is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New Republic. He is the author of two poetry collections, The Thousand Wells and Invasions, and two works of nonfiction on poetry, The Wounded Surgeon and The Modern Element. He lives in New York City.

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"Adam Kirsch has produced a charming and absorbing apercu into one of the most fascinating statesmen of modern history. A delightful read.:
--Howard M. Sachar, author of A History of Israel

"Kirsch has written an important and compelling book about Benjamin Disraeli, the first Jewish prime minister of England, who famously replied, 'Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.' This engaging biography gives nuance and meaning to one of the most enigmatic men of the Victorian era."
--Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

About the author

Adam Kirsch, a book critic for The New York Sun, is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New Republic. He is the author of two poetry collections, The Thousand Wells and Invasions, and two works of nonfiction on poetry, The Wounded Surgeon and The Modern Element. He lives in New York City.

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