Sublime

how was it that Disraeli, a bankrupt Jewish school dropout and trashy novelist, came to exert such a hold on the Victorian Conservative Party,

This point about imagination is vital. Disraeli believed it was the guiding political quality.

This vast realm of geographical ignorance reduced European activity in the Outer World to an archipelago of settlements, mines and trading depots connected by a skein of pathways kept open only by constant effort.

Joaquin Aguirre

One such imprint was noted by Disraeli’s long-term political companion and ultimately his enemy, Edward Stanley, the 15th Earl of Derby, in his diaries. There is no repetition anywhere of the conversation which Disraeli held with Stanley in 1851 in which he expounded the advantages of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. But it is clear that Di

To Nathan Rothschild, Disraeli had been a champion of the Jewish race and indeed a remarkable friend to his own family, risking his career by supporting the right of Jews to sit in the House of Commons. Paradoxically, Disraeli had based his argument not on the liberal case for tolerance and equality but on the bolder, more controversial claim that