DISRAELI

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