Volume 55, Number 19 · December 4, 2008
What Disraeli Can Teach Us
By Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Benjamin Disraeli
by Adam Kirsch
Nextbook/Schocken, 258 pp., $21.00
In one of his best essays, Isaiah Berlin compared two astonishing contemporaries, both of them 'famous, influential, exceptionally gifted.' Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) and Karl Marx (1818–1883) were men of letters who hoped to become men of action, both addressed the great question of class conflict but from totally different angles, and both did so by way of identifying with classes to which they did not belong. They were both Jews.
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