Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister Book

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