Benjamin Disraeli was a wise-cracking, crazy genius who, despite a penchant for wearing his hair in Shirley Temple ringlets and sporting canary yellow velvet waistcoats, managed to claw his way to ...

"Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann (The old Jew, he is the man)." So said German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck about British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, in reference to who was the center of ...

Becky Krytsal is a staff writer for The Washington Post. MR. AND MRS. DISRAELI By Daisy Hay Farrar Straus Giroux. 308 pp. $27 Unlike most contemporary couples, whose sweet nothings vanish into the ...

Adam Kirsch, “Benjamin Disraeli” (Nextbook: Schocken, 2008 ) $21.00. Benjamin Disraeli was born Jewish, baptized as a boy but (mostly) considered himself to be Jewish. He famously proclaimed to Queen ...

FEW public men in any country have been made the subject of so much hostile criticism as Benjamin Disraeli. The most powerful section of the press in England has always been opposed to him. The rising ...

AS AMERICA’S first black president, Barack Obama’s place in history is assured. In the few days since he has left the White House, tributes have deemed him “one of the greatest presidents of all time” ...

When Lytton Strachey’s “Eminent Victorians” was published, in 1918, it included, in addition to the portraits of his leading characters, cameos of almost all the other famous Victorians: Cardinal ...

On Feb. 29, 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American actor to win an Academy Award -- for her role in "Gone With the Wind." Top News // 5 years ago On This Day: Hattie McDaniel becomes ...