Lord George Bentinck
Subtitle: a political biography
By: Benjamin Disraeli ; with a new introduction by Robert W. Kamphuis, Jr.
Contributors: Kamphuis, Robert W.
Series: The library of conservative thought
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Bentinck, George, Lord, 1802-1848.; Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901.
Description: Lord George Bentinck is an account of Disraeli's relation with his parliamentary colleague and friend. It is a vivid story of one of the great parliamentary dramas in British history.

It is hard to overstate the bitterness and fury which Peel's decision to repeal the corn laws had provoked in British politics. Friendships were sundered, families divided, and the feuds of politics carried into private life to a degree quite unusual in British history. But the worth of this book goes beyond constitutional history or even the Irish potato famine.

Disraeli helps explain the intellectual and ideological grounds of the Young England Movement, a conservative force that aimed at a union of discontented industrial workers with aristocratic landowners and against factious Whigs, selfish factory owners, and dissenting shopkeepers. In forging such a policy of principle, the Conservatives, as Disraeli's book well demonstrates, became a minority party but one which carried the full weight of moral politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: London : Archibald Constable and Co., 1905.