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In August 1996 Margaret and Denis travelled to the Highlands of Scotland to spend a few days as the guests of Lord Pearson of Rannoch. His Perthshire estate is one of the most windswept and inaccessible wildernesses in the United ...
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The Prime Minister was delighted, although she took on board the all-important rider that Marshall's forecasts depended on the continuing supply of coal from the Nottinghamshire pits. No wonder she concentrated on encouraging the ...
In the same pre-Christmas period she asked Brian Griffiths,* Professor of Banking at City University, to come to see her. He was one of her academic 'voices' on economic policy, but was unprepared for the depths of her worries.
Thatcher's campaign was expertly organized by the back-bench MP Airey Neave, whereas Heath was merely bad-tempered and resentful, mistakenly believing the leadership would remain his. On the first ballot, held on 4 February, ...
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Drawing on memoirs and diaries of her colleagues, aides, advisers and rivals as well as original material from the Ronald Reagan archive, this second volume in a biography of Margaret Thatcher chronicles the 11 years of her momentous ...
Harold Macmillan was camping out in some style at Admiralty House while 10 Downing Street was undergoing extensive refurbishment. I had already developed my own strong impressions of him, not just from speeches in the House and to the ...
254–6 Philip Ziegler, Wilson: The Authorised Life (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993), p. 76 Denis Healey, The Time Of My Life (London: Penguin Books, 1990), p. 368 Ziegler, Wilson, p. 496 Cited in Stewart Jones, British Policy in the ...
Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady
With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and initial period as prime minister of the woman who ...
Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.
'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times), Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister reaches its climax with the story of her zenith and her fall This third ...
Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.
The Complete Life of Margaret Thatcher in One Volume
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When Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative leadership in 1975, the public knew her only as an archetypal Home Counties Tory Lady, more famous for...
When Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative leadership in 1975, the public knew her only as an archetypal Home Counties Tory Lady, more famous for...
In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge to Edward Heath for leadership of ...