Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780241687673
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2025
Publisher: Penguin UK


Description:
Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, now in a single volume




With unparalleled authority and dramatic detail, Charles Moore's definitive biography of Margaret Thatcher, now published in a single volume to mark the centenary of her birth, presents the whole history of the woman who transformed Britain and the world.




With unique access to Thatcher's private and governmental papers and extensive interviews with her, her family, and colleagues, Moore gives readers an unsurpassed portrait of her early years, her rise to power and her revolutionary eleven and a half years as Prime Minister. He guides us through her economic battles to her zenith at the Falklands crisis, her extraordinary three election victories and her dramatic final days in office.




Moore describes her sometimes combative relationships with senior colleagues - especially Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson and Michael Heseltine - who contributed both to her rise and to her fall. He portrays the strength and importance of her relationship with Queen Elizabeth II, while offering a candid account of their difficulties. He also brilliantly conveys Thatcher's pivotal role on the world stage - including in the ending of the Cold War, the fierce battle over the future of Europe, and her relationships with Reagan, Gorbachev, Bush, Kohl and Mandela. He shows how she was a pioneer - of privatization, which has since been copied all over the world, and as the first leader of a major state to understand climate change. He explains how 'Thatcherism' became a set of ideas both welcomed and contested acro