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 prominence and become, on two separate occasions, the first and only Jewish prime minister of Great Britain.
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Benjamin Disraeli: Dead Cool
From befriending Queen Victoria to appearing on Family Guy, British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is a modern icon. In his new column, Simon Doonan explains why the long-dead leader is now wildly cool.
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