Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow

Name: Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow
Price: 20.60 USD
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Author: Charles Moore
ISBN: 9789781101873849

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 Mrs. Thatcher transformed relations with Europe, privatized the commanding heights of British industry and continued the reinvigoration of the British economy. 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, some of which would return to wound her, fatally.

Charles Moore has had unprecedented access to all of Mrs. Thatcher's private and government papers. 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. This titanic figure, with all her capabilities and her flaws, storms from these pages as from no other book.