Adam Kirsch, a book critic for The New York Sun, is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New Republic. He is the author of two poetry collections, The Thousand Wells and Invasions, and two works of nonfiction on poetry, The Wounded Surgeon and The Modern Element. He lives in New York City.
"Adam Kirsch has produced a charming and absorbing apercu into one
of the most fascinating statesmen of modern history. A delightful
read.:
--Howard M. Sachar, author of A History of Israel
"Kirsch has written an important and compelling book about Benjamin
Disraeli, the first Jewish prime minister of England, who famously
replied, 'Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right
honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine
were priests in the temple of Solomon.' This engaging biography
gives nuance and meaning to one of the most enigmatic men of the
Victorian era."
--Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
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