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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $9.98
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Richard Aldous
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Edition: 1st American Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.0810922
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Publication Date: 2007-09-17
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: The vicious political struggle that electrified Victorian society, brilliantly re-created for a new generation.
William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the nineteenth century. Their intense mutual hatred was both ideologically driven and deeply personal. Their vitriolic duels, carried out over decades, lend profound insight into the social and political currents that dominated Victorian England. To Disraeli—a legendary dandy descended from Sephardic Jews—his antagonist was an "unprincipled maniac" characterized by an "extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy, and superstition." For the conservative aristocrat Gladstone, his rival was "the Grand Corrupter," whose destruction he plotted "day and night, week by week, month by month." In the tradition of Roy Jenkins and A. N. Wilson, Richard Aldous has written an outstanding political biography, giving us the first dual portrait of this intense and momentous rivalry. Aldous's vivid narrative style—by turns powerful, witty, and stirring—brings new life to the Gladstone and Disraeli story and confirms a perennial truth: in politics, everything is personal. 16 pages of illustrations.
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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $14.28
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Manufacturer: Schocken
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Adam Kirsch
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Publisher: Schocken
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.081092
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Publication Date: 2008-09-02
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies about the Middle East remain prophetically relevant today. How a man who was born a Jew--and who remained in the eyes of his countrymen a member of a despised minority--managed to become prime minister of England seems even today nothing short of miraculous.
In this compelling biography, renowned poet and critic Adam Kirsch looks at Disraeli as a novelist as well as a statesman, recognizing that the outsider Jew who became one of the world's most powerful men was his own greatest character. Though baptized by his father at the age of twelve, Disraeli was seen--and saw himself--as a Jew. But her created an idea of Jewishness to rival the British notion of aristocracy.
Disraeli was a figure of fascinating contradictions: an archconservative who benefited from England's liberal attitudes, a baptized Christian who saw Jewishness as a matter of racial superiority, a perennial outsider who dreamed of glory for England, which, in the words of one contemporary, became for Disraeli "the Israel of his imagination."
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Price: $9.99
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Sale: $4.93
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jonathan Parry
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.081092
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Publication Date: 2007-08-06
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $4.76
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Christopher Hibbert
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 2007-06-12
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: To Thomas Carlyle he was "not worth his weight in cold bacon," but, to Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli was "the kindest Minister" she had ever had and a "dear and devoted friend." In this masterly biography by England's "outstanding popular historian" (A.N. Wilson), Christopher Hibbert reveals the personal life of one of the most fascinating men of the nineteenth century and England's most eccentric Prime Minister. A superb speaker, writer, and wit, Disraeli did not intend to be a politician. Born into a family of Jewish merchants, Disraeli was a conspicuous dandy, constantly in debt, and enjoyed many scandalous affairs until, in 1839, he married an eccentric widow twelve years older than him. As an antidote to his grief at his wife’s death in 1872, he threw himself into politics becoming Prime Minister for the second time in 1874, much to the Queen’s delight. |
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Price: $89.25
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Sale: $212.67
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Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Richard Shannon
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Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.2410409034
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Publication Date: 1992-07
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Reading Level: 432
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $49.98
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Manufacturer: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.081092
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Publication Date: 2005-03-15
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Reading Level: 156
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Description: Byronic adventurer, dandy, and prolific novelist, Benjamin Disraeli was a complex and controversial political figure who finally ascended the "Greasy Pole" to become Conservative Prime Minister in 1868 and again in 1874. Six essays examine central themes in Disraeli's personal and public life, as well as his diplomatic and writing careers—five by leading scholars and one by a former Chancellor of the Exchequer. It also includes the catalog from the 2003-2004 exhibition at the Bodleian Library, which focused on some of the key stepping stones in Disraeli's long and fascinating life, including his career as a novelist. Among the items illustrated and discussed are the "Mutilated Diary," personal and political letters, political cartoons from the John Johnson Collection of printed ephemera, images from Disraeli's "Gallery of Affection," and the fan signed by the delegates to the Congress of Berlin in 1878.
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Price: $82.00
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Sale: $70.20
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Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 1989-03-01
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Reading Level: 449
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $2.45
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Manufacturer: Stein & Day Pub
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sarah Bradford
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Publisher: Stein & Day Pub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.0810924
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Publication Date: 1983
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Reading Level: 432
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stanley Weintraub
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Publisher: Dutton Adult
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.08
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Publication Date: 1993-10-01
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Reading Level: 736
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Price: $70.00
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Sale: $70.00
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Richard Shannon
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.0810924
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Publication Date: 1999-05-31
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Reading Level: 704
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Description: William Ewart Gladstone was perhaps the greatest colossus of the Victorian Age. Along with his formidable rival, Benjamin Disraeli, he dominated Britain's political scene from the moment of his appointment as chancellor of the exchequer in Aberdeen's famous coalition ministry until his resignation as prime minister in March 1894, four years before his death. In the intervening years, he held the office of prime minister four times. With this volume, Richard Shannon completes his magisterial biography of Gladstone. Tracing Gladstone's career from his rise to eminence in 1865 until his death in 1898, Shannon documents his emergence as the dominant personality in the Liberal Party, his activities as a statesman, and his decades-long battle with Disraeli. In his analysis, Shannon pays particular attention to Gladstone's attempts to integrate his religion with his career. Profoundly influenced by his Anglican Christianity, Gladstone approached his causes with a missionary fervor, Shannon argues. This tenacity is perhaps best illustrated by Gladstone's unyielding support of Irish home rule—a position so at odds with Liberal policies that it caused many Liberals to ally themselves with the Conservatives, thereby instigating the decline of Gladstone's own party.
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