Disraeli: life of the party

Adam Gopnik reviews two new biographies of Benjamin Disraeli in the latest New Yorker: Life of the Party Twice Prime Minister, and the dominant figure of the Conservative Party from 1846 until his death in 1881, Disraeli is a remarkable historic figure, ripe for biography. As Gopnik comments:

One reason that Disraeli is such an appealing subject is that, unlike other romantic adventurers, he had a successful career and a happy life. Things worked out pretty much as he had planned, even though the plan was one of the most improbable ever devised by the mind of man: a debt-scarred, overdressed, effeminate, literary Jew set himself to become Prime Minister of England, and the leader of its right-wing party, at the height of the British Empire. He is himself proof, in slightly comic form, of the principle of heroic imagination that he fabulized so passionately in his fiction. Any responsible historian can see that Disraeli couldn’t have happened. But he did.

 

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[dilbert dogbert]

Just started reading De Fuehrer, Konrad Heiden, 1944 found in my late father in laws library. From the early part of that book I think one could say the same about Hitler.

[Buce]

I read Robert Blake's Disraeli 38 years ago as a change of pace after my bar exam. As a bio it was so good that I have never wanted to spoil the effect by reading a competitor. Apptly not in print in the US although aftermarket copies are available at the books sites.

Just in general, I think Blake never got the recognition in the US that he merits. His little history of the conservative party looks British but in fact is a wonderful meditation on what it means to be conservative. Also OOP apptly.

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