The Man Who Never Glared
John Pemble: Disraeli, 5 December 2013
Disraeli: or, The Two Lives
by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young.
Orion, 320 pp., £20, July 2013,978 0 297 86097 6 Show More
by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young.
Orion, 320 pp., £20, July 2013,
The Great Rivalry: Gladstone and Disraeli
by Dick Leonard.
I.B. Tauris, 226 pp., £22.50, June 2013,978 1 84885 925 8 Show More
by Dick Leonard.
I.B. Tauris, 226 pp., £22.50, June 2013,
Disraeli: The Romance of Politics
by Robert O’Kell.
Toronto, 595 pp., £66.99, February 2013,978 1 4426 4459 5 Show More
by Robert O’Kell.
Toronto, 595 pp., £66.99, February 2013,
“... reinvents himself as a Tory: the Tories are now led by his contemporary and old school friend, Robert Peel. At Harrow, Peel was a model pupil; Byron was a madcap, and he still thinks a lot more of Peel than Peel thinks of him. Peel is committed to transforming the Tory Party. He’s out of sympathy with horsey aristocrats, rustic squires, dissolute ... ”
