Two titans, Disraeli and Gladstone, dominated English politics in the Victorian age. Each did multiple stints as prime minister and as leader of the Conservative (Disraeli) or Liberal (Gladstone) ...
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An old colleague and leadership expert used to relate a little parable about the great British prime ministers, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli. It was said that, after dinner with Gladstone, ...
DISRAELI: A PICTURE or THE VICTORIAN AGE—Andre Maurois—Appleton ($3). The Man. Into the stodgiest period of English history minced “Dizzy,” “in a coat of black velvet, poppy-colored trousers ...
SOMEWHERE in the course of his infinite gossip, Augustus J. C. Hare tells of a dinner at which one of the guests spoke of Disraeli as ‘that old Jew gentleman who is sitting on the top of chaos.’ The ...
FEW public men in any country have been made the subject of so much hostile criticism as Benjamin Disraeli. The most powerful section of the press in England has always been opposed to him. The rising ...
At the time of Queen Victoria's birth in 1819, England was an agrarian society. Within a few short decades, this small island nation would be transformed into an industrial superpower, with an empire ...
Benjamin Disraeli is back in fashion. The dapper Earl of Beaconsfield, twice prime minister under Queen Victoria, makes a comeback whenever conservatives of a certain bent—toward “national greatness” ...
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