{"product_id":"benjamin-disraeli-and-john-murray-the-politician-the-publisher-and-the-representative-9781781383070","title":"Benjamin Disraeli and John Murray: The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book tells the story of an early nineteenth-century London newspaper, the Representative, more important for the people who took part in its inception than for its journalistic merits. The gallery of characters who appear in the narrative includes prominent figures of the age, literary as well as  political, such as Sir Walter Scott and his son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart; Foreign Secretary George Canning; and certainly publisher John Murray II. The pivotal figure is, however, a very young Benjamin Disraeli, whose brilliant mind already displayed great powers of observation, verbal expression and manipulation of his elders and betters.   Written  in a fluent style, and drawing upon previously untapped original sources at The Bodleian Library and The John Murray Archive at The National Library of Scotland,  the book presents documented proof that the events narrated are quite different from  what has traditionally been accepted as truth, at the same time it unveils hitherto unknown facets of well-known figures of the age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews ‘A book that will entertain and enlighten literary scholars interested in the history of newspaper publishing as well as in the life and times of the young, brash Benjamin Disraeli.’ \u003cbr\u003eMichel Pharand, Director, The Disraeli Project, Queen's University at Kingston\u003cbr\u003e'Intended as a rival to \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Representative\u003c\/i\u003e, established in 1825, only lasted some six months before it failed, costing the publisher, John Samuel Murray, heavy financial loss. Drawing on material held in the Bodleian Library and the National Library of Scotland, the scholarly Chilean author presents, in mellifluous English, a sequence of events that sheds new light on matters that led to estrangement between the Disraeli and Murray families, not least because of the duplicitous behaviour of the young Benjamin Disraeli in his dealings with John Gibson Lockhart and his cruel attack on Murray in \u003ci\u003eVivian Grey\u003c\/i\u003e(1826). Indeed, Disraeli comes rather badly out of this fascinating story.'\u003cbr\u003eJames Stevens Curl, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eDramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I Backdrop\u003cbr\u003eChapter II A Conspiracy\u003cbr\u003eChapter III The Intruder from the North\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV An Inauspicious Start\u003cbr\u003eChapter V Portrait of a Newspaper\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI The Sequel\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I The ‘Poisonous Pen’ of John Gibson Lockhart\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II John Wilson Croker as a Literary Critic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360114737495,"sku":"9781781383070","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781781383070.jpg?v=1754126712","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/benjamin-disraeli-and-john-murray-the-politician-the-publisher-and-the-representative-9781781383070","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}