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A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political andsexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivatingfigures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation withproto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasiesabout the Middle East remain prophetically relevant today. How aman who was born a Jew--and who remained in the eyes of hiscountrymen a member of a despised minority--managed to become primeminister of England seems even today nothing short ofmiraculous.
In this compelling biography, renowned poet and critic AdamKirsch looks at Disraeli as a novelist as well as a statesman,recognizing that the outsider Jew who became one of the world'smost powerful men was his own greatest character. Though baptizedby his father at the age of twelve, Disraeli was seen--and sawhimself--as a Jew. But her created an idea of Jewishness to rivalthe British notion of aristocracy.
In this compelling biography, renowned poet and critic AdamKirsch looks at Disraeli as a novelist as well as a statesman,recognizing that the outsider Jew who became one of the world'smost powerful men was his own greatest character. Though baptizedby his father at the age of twelve, Disraeli was seen--and sawhimself--as a Jew. But her created an idea of Jewishness to rivalthe British notion of aristocracy.