Dizzy: The Life and Personality of Benjamin Disraeli

Deservedly one of the outstanding biographers of our time, Hesketh Pearson turns this book to perhaps the most fascinating, perplexing and dramatic figure of the Victorian age -- a man who was equally famous as statesman, author and wit...penetrating the glittering facade to give us the man himself. Side by side with that famous, sphinxlike figure who could hold the House of Commons spellbound during a three-hour speech, who brought England to the historic peak of her power, we have the character who danced a jig with his wife in their bedroom, wrote her daily notes, was inconsolable at her death, and eventually emerged from self-imposed isolation to fall in love at seventy with another man's wife...a brilliant re-creation of the man whose personality was his genius." ~ from the book's inner jacket blurb