A new exploration of the relationship between the Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan administrations in domestic policy. Using recently released documentary material and extensive research interviews, James Cooper demonstrates how specific policy transfer between these 'political soul mates' was more limited than is typically assumed.
And in the early weeks of campaigning , Reagan did little to disabuse voters of Carter's contention that he would be a liability in the White House . In August , Reagan almost ensured his own defeat by failing to curb his habit of ...
But, as Richard Aldous argues, these political titans clashed repeatedly as they confronted the greatest threat of their time: the USSR.
Drawing on a host of recently declassified documents from the Reagan-Thatcher years, A Diplomatic Meeting: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Art of Summitry provides an innovative framework for understanding the development and nature of the ...
Aldous re-examines the iconic friendship and uneasy alliance between President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher--the couple who ended the Cold War.
Lord Timothy Bell of Belgravia is a British communications and advertising executive. He is best known for his close working relationship with Thatcher as an executive for the Saatchi & Saatchi communications agency.
Drawing on interviews with both leaders and their key advisors, the author traces the close political partnership between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and how that partnership influenced world events
Savoie considers the war of reform waged by the leaders of these major industrial countries.
Addresses the question of whether there was a distinctive Anglo-American Conservative revolution under Reagan and Thatcher, and examines the political elites, political ideas and policy communities animating the Anglo-American right wing ...
In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is ...
'" - Ronald Reagan "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher Kindred Spirits. Cold Warriors. Conservative Icons.