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Free Thinking Essay - Disraeli the Romantic

Daisy Hay from Exeter University explores the way in which Disraeli invented the modern politician as a man or woman of feeling, and asks whether the image he projected as an...

Daisy Hay from Exeter University explores the way in which Disraeli invented the modern politician as a man or woman of feeling, and asks whether the image he projected as an emotionally in-touch everyman stemmed from fact or fiction? Recorded in front of an audience at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 and the AHRC to find the brightest academic minds with the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts.

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