In Life of the Party, Adam Gopnik looks at the unusual conservative who became prime minister of Great Britain, Benjamin Disraeli:
A salacious imagination is not needed to wonder about the sexual orientation of a man who dresses up in pirate garb, writes novels gasping after gorgeous, ignorant young lords, enjoys a series of passionate friendships with handsome younger men, has his closest female relations with sisters and much older women, and defends, as Disraeli did, the love life of the Turks.