Christopher Hibbert

Disraeli (eBook, ePUB)

A Personal History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Disraeli is one of the most fascinating men of the 19th century. This masterly biography, written by an outstanding popular historian, concentrates on his intriguing private life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007389131
• Artikelnr.: 39948961

Autorenporträt

Christopher Hibbert was described in the New Statesman as 'a pearl of biographers', in the Sunday Times as 'a gloriously versatile writer', and in the TES as 'perhaps the most gifted popular historian we have'. His many highly acclaimed books include lives of Mussolini, Samuel Johnson, Wellington, Nelson, Queen Victoria and Napoleon; biographies of cities such as London, Rome, Venice and Florence; histories of the Cavaliers and Roundheads and The Great Mutiny, and a social history of the English.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Part One: 1804-46
Boyhood
A Young Man of High Fashion
A Continental Holiday
Mental Breakdown
Travels and Adventures
'The Jew d'Esprit'
The Candidate
Affairs
The Reforming Tory
Debts and Duns
The Member for Maidstone
'Most Brilliant and Triumphant Speeches'
'A Pretty Little Woman, a Flirt and a Rattle'
A Troubled Courtship
A Happy Marriage
The Brilliant Orator
Young England
Coningsby and Sybil
Damning Attacks
Tancred
Part Two: 1846-81
The Jockey and the Jew
The Country Gentleman
The Chancellor
Marital Difficulties
Balls and Banquets
Visits and Visitors
Fetes and Follies
Distinguished Persons and Private Secretaries
The 'Potent Wizard'
A Guest as Balmoral and Osborne
Ministed in Attendance
The Widower
Female Friends
Prime Minister Again
Troubles at Court
Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden
Berlin
The 'Guardian Angel'
The Last Act
'A Wise and Worldly Man'
References
Index