Benjamin Disraeli.

New York, NY Schocken, 2008. Hardcover First Edition (2008); First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First Edition (2008); First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Fine in Fine DJ: The Book is flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no discernible flaws. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Virtually 'As New'. The DJ is flawless; unclipped. As New. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.35 x 1 inches). xxiv, 258 pages. Language: English. Weight: 14.5 ounces. Black boards with bright silver titles at the backstrip. Nextbooks Jewish Encounters Series. Hardback with DJ. Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (1804 – 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the British Empire, and military action to expand it, both of which were popular among British voters at the time. He is the only British prime minister to have been of Jewish origin. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister. The renowned poet and critic Adam Kirsch here 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".