Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 18521856, Volume Vi (Letters Of Benjamin Disraeli),New

Amazon.Com Reviewat Any Time, Benjamin Disraeli Would Have Been A Remarkable Man; During The Time In Which He Lived, He Was Extraordinary. At Various Times A Solicitor, A Speculator, A Journalist, And A Politician, Disraeli Was Also A Writer. In Fact, His Early Publishing Success, With Such Novels As Vivian Grey, The Young Duke, And Alroy, Offset His Political Defeats As He Attempted To Gain A Seat In The British Parliament. Of Course, Today Disraeli Is Better Remembered As One Of England'S Greatest Prime Ministers Than As A Writeran Injustice That Benjamin Disraeli Letters Will Hopefully Do Much To Correct.In This Sixth Volume Of The Great Man'S Correspondence, As In The Previous Five, All Of Benjamin Disraeli'S Many Talents (And Flaws) Are On Display. In Addition To His Political Acuity, These Letters Demonstrate Why 'Diz' Is So Much Quoted, Even Today, As He Brings A Novelist'S Merciless Eye And Facility With Language To The Wild And Woolly World Of British Politics. Historians Will Be Especially Pleased With This Collection, Filled As It Is With The Business Of Running A Government, But Even More Casual Readers Can Take Pleasure In The Vivid Portrait Of The Victorian Era That Disraeli So Entertainingly Evokes.Product Descriptionbenjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria'S Favourite Prime Minister, Was, In The Words Of Robert Blake, 'The Best Letterwriter Among English Statesmen.'This, The Latest Volume In The Critically Acclaimed Letters Of Benjamin Disraeli Series, Contains Or Describes 951 Letters (784 Previously Unpublished) Written By Disraeli Between 1852 And 1856. These Years Cover His First Cabinet Post, As Chancellor Of The Exchequer, His Attempts As House Leader To Unify The Conservative Party, And His Opposition To The Crimean War, Both In The House And In His Newspaper, The Press. Included Are Significant Runs Of Correspondence, Such As 63 Letters (34 Previously Unpublished) To The 14Th Earl Of Derby, And 75 Letters (None Previously Published) To Lord Stanley, The Future 15Th Earl Of Derby, As Well As More Personal Ones, Such As 59 Letters To The Eccentric Mrs Brydges Willyams, The 'Female Croesus' Who Offered Disraeli A Substantial Legacy. These Illuminate Anew Both His Public And Private Life, And Show The Strength Of His Resolve To Reshape Party Policies To Suit The Age Of Industrialism And Free Trade. New Light Is Also Thrown On Other Matters, Such As The Supposed Plagiarism In His Panegyric On The Duke Of Wellington. Ten Appendices Include Full Cabinet Lists, Disraeli'S Own Reminiscences Of The Period, And Stanley'S Remarkable Verbatim Notes Of Intimate Conversations With Disraeli At Hughenden Manor.Review'If You Have Not Read The First Three Volumes Of The Disraeli Letters, Then You Have A Treat In Store...Volume Iv, Like The Others, Is Informatively Introduced And Meticulously Edited...The Detailed Footnotes...Are Often As Illuminating As The Letters. The Erudition Never Becomes Heavy Or Obfuscating, But The Accumulated Information Is A Veritable Who'S Who And Where'S Where For London Life In The 1840S.' Ann P. Robson Newsletter Of The Victorian Studies Association'The Editing Is Splendid...As It Continues, This Important Project Will Stimulate Us To Look At The Familiar In New Ways.' Angus Hopkins The Parliamentary History Yearbookreview'The Editing Is Splendid...As It Continues, This Important Project Will Stimulate Us To Look At The Familiar In New Ways.' Angus Hopkins The Parliamentary History Yearbook'If You Have Not Read The First Three Volumes Of The Disraeli Letters, Then You Have A Treat In Store...Volume Iv, Like The Others, Is Informatively Introduced And Meticulously Edited...The Detailed Footnotes...Are Often As Illuminating As The Letters. The Erudition Never Becomes Heavy Or Obfuscating, But The Accumulated Information Is A Veritable Who'S Who And Where'S Where For London Life In The 1840S.' Ann P. Robson Newsletter Of The Victorian Studies Associationabo