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Index
Cover
Landing Page
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Sources
Part I: EARLY YEARS
CHAPTER I: Background and Boyhood
CHAPTER II: ‘The Hour of Adventure’
CHAPTER III: The Grand Tour
CHAPTER IV: ‘I struggle from Pride’
CHAPTER V: Henrietta
CHAPTER VI: Distraction and Disappointment
CHAPTER VII: Parliament and Marriage
CHAPTER VIII: Young England
CHAPTER IX: The Trilogy
CHAPTER X: The Fall of Peel
Part II: FRONT BENCH
CHAPTER XI: The Leadership
CHAPTER XII: The Political Scene
CHAPTER XIII: Protection
CHAPTER XIV: Office
CHAPTER XV: The Budget of 1852
CHAPTER XVI: Opposition Again
CHAPTER XVII: Rebuff and Recovery
CHAPTER XVIII: A Second Defeat
CHAPTER XIX: Private Life
CHAPTER XX: Revival
CHAPTER XXI: The Second Reform Bill
Part III: TOP OF THE GREASY POLE
CHAPTER XXII: Prime Minister
CHAPTER XXIII: A Setback
CHAPTER XXIV: Power
CHAPTER XXV: Foreign Affairs
CHAPTER XXVI: Divided Counsels
CHAPTER XXVII: The Congress of Berlin
CHAPTER XXVIII: Afghans and Zulus
CHAPTER XXIX: Society and Patronage
CHAPTER XXX: The Fall of ‘Beaconsfieldism’
CHAPTER XXXI: Endymion; Falconet
CHAPTER XXXII: The End
Epilogue
Appendices
APPENDIX I: Disraeli’s letter to Mary Anne
APPENDIX II: Writings of Benjamin Disraeli
Select Bibliography
Index
A, B, C
D, E, F
G, H, I
J, K, L
M, N, O
P, Q, R
S, T, U
V, W, X
Y, Z
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