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In this brilliant piece Jonathan Parry traces the extraordinary and unique career and qualities of Benjamin Disraeli. The reader of this compact, lucid and very readable book embarks on a very wide ranging journey following Disraeli’s life with the benefit of facts about his life and insights, many of which one assumes were unknown to indeed kept hidden from his parliamentary contemporaries. Disraeli’s extravagant costume and mannered behaviour provided a mask for the immeasurably more exotic and brilliant underneath which would have largely proved unfathomable, confusing and disturbing for his colleagues and more widely those he sought to win over. Parry notes the coexistence in Disraeli of high principle as well as a love of intrigue. Disraeli believed from a young age that he was brilliant. He was something more than that