Moore Charles Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 2: Everything She Wants 9780140279627

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Автор: Moore Charles
Название: Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 2: Everything She Wants
Перевод названия: Чарльз Мур: Маргарет Тетчер. Биография. Том 2. Все, чего она желалет
ISBN: 9780140279627
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

История Британии и Ирландии

Послевоенная история 20 века: с 1945 по 2000

Политические лидеры и политическое руководство

ISBN-10: 0140279628
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 880
Вес: 0.644 кг.
Дата издания: 06.10.2016
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 32pp b/w illustrations
Размер: 198 x 129 x 40
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The authorized biography, volume two: everything she wants
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Описание: The sensational second volume of Charles Moores bestselling authorized biography of the Iron LadyIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a governments Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely authoritative biography, Britains first woman prime minister changed the course of her countrys 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 Thatchers 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 Thatchers 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 leaders 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 dont approve of her as Prime Minister, but by God shes a great tank commander. This titanic figure, with all her capacities and all her flaws, storms from these pages as from no other book.

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 2: Everything She Wants, Moore Charles