Jean's Reviews > Disraeli

I was trying to choose which biography of Disraeli to read. I settled on this book by Blake as it is considered the seminal biography of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881).

This book is well written and meticulously researched. I like having the documentation at the end of every chapter instead of it at the end of the book. Blake cover in depth Disraeli’s writing career as well as his life as a politician. The author discussed Disraeli’s faults as well as his strengths. I think Blake did a fairly good job of presenting a neutral view of Disraeli.

I have wanted to read about Disraeli for years because I was constantly coming across him in other biographers such as that of Queen Victoria, Peele and Gladstone. I find this period of British history most interesting.

I read this as an e-book downloaded from Amazon to my Kindle app on my iPad. The book is 860 pages originally published by Faber and Fare in 1966.