Disraeli
Subtitle: A Brief Life
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521669900
Subjects: Biography: general; Political History; Great Britain - History - 19th Century; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Religious; Historical - British; Political; Western Europe - General; Biography & Autobiography / Political; Biography & Autobiography-Historical - British; History / Great Britain; History-Western Europe - General
First sentence: TO ENGLAND in 1748, in search of opportunity in the straw bonnet trade, came an eighteen-year-old Italian Jew, Benjamin D'Israeli, from the small town of Cento in the Papal States, some seventy miles south-west of Venice.