Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants
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The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling
authorized biography of the Iron Lady In June 1983 Margaret
Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary
majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as
Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely
authoritative biography, Britain's first woman prime minister
changed the course of her country's history and that of the world,
often by sheer force of will. The book reveals as never before how
she faced down the Miners' Strike, transformed relations with
Europe, privatized the commanding heights of British industry and
continued the reinvigoration of the British economy. It describes
her role on the world stage with dramatic immediacy, identifying
Mikhail Gorbachev as 'a man to do business with' before he became
leader of the Soviet Union, and then persistently pushing him and
Ronald Reagan, her great ideological soulmate, to order world
affairs according to her vision. For the only time since Churchill,
she ensured that Britain had a central place in dealings between
the superpowers. But even at her zenith she was beset by
difficulties. The beloved Reagan two-timed her during the US
invasion of Grenada. She lost the minister to whom she was
personally closest to scandal and almost had to resign as a result
of the Westland affair. She found herself isolated within her own
government over Europe. She was at odds with the Queen over the
Commonwealth and South Africa. She bullied senior colleagues and
she set in motion the poll tax. Both these last would later return
to wound her, fatally. In all this, Charles Moore has had
unprecedented access to all Mrs Thatcher's private and government
papers. The participants in the events described have been so frank
in interview that we feel we are eavesdropping on their
conversations as they pass. We look over Mrs Thatcher's shoulder as
she vigorously annotates documents, so seeing her views on many
particular issues in detail, and we understand for the first time
how closely she relied on a handful of trusted advisors to help
shape her views and carry out her will. We see her as a public
performer, an often anxious mother, a workaholic and the first
woman in western democratic history who truly came to dominate her
country in her time. In the early hours of 12 October 1984, during
the Conservative party conference in Brighton, the IRA attempted to
assassinate her. She carried on within hours to give her leader's
speech at the conference (and later went on to sign the Anglo-Irish
agreement). One of her many left-wing critics, watching her that
day, said 'I don't approve of her as Prime Minister, but by God
she's a great tank commander.' This titanic figure, with all her
capacities and all her flaws, storms from these pages as from no
other book.
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Penguin
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