Disraeli
Subtitle: A Brief Life (British Lives)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 30, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521381505
Subjects: Biography: general; Western Europe - General; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881; Political; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; English; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Earl of Beaconsfield,; Historical - British; Disraeli, Benjamin; Disraeli, Benjamin,--Earl of Beaconsfield,--1804-1881; History / Great Britain; Prime ministers; Jews; Historical - General; Romanticism; 1804-1881; Biography; Conservative Party (Great Brit; Disraeli, Benjamin,; Great Britain
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.