The Slow Downfall Of Margaret Thatcher

Author : Bernard Ingham
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785904950

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The Slow Downfall of Margaret Thatcher by Bernard Ingham Pdf

Branded 'the rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin', Bernard Ingham served as Margaret Thatcher's press secretary for virtually all of her eleven-year premiership, adroitly steering the government's relationship with the media – and the Prime Minister's relationship with the nation. Known for his unswerving loyalty, he robustly defended Thatcher from her critics in both the press and the political jungle, earning him friends and foes in equal measure, as she went on to win three consecutive elections. Thatcher's last days in power, however, saw some of the most remarkable events in British political history, and Ingham was, for once, helpless to turn the tide. These eagerly anticipated diaries cover two turbulent years from January 1989 to December 1990 – a period Ingham terms 'the long, slow assassination' – detailing the succession of crises that led to the Prime Minister's resignation in November 1990, and the critical roles played by the big political beasts of the time. With his trademark gruff candour and wry wit, Ingham's spirited diaries shed new light on Thatcher's final months in No. 10, charting the dramatic downfall of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century.

Author : Charles Moore
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241324752

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Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore Pdf

The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times) A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the woman who won the Cold War and three general elections in succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs? Charles Moore's full account, based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher herself, her papers and her closest associates, tells the story of her last period in office, her combative retirement and the controversy that surrounded her even in death. It includes the Fall of the Berlin Wall which she had fought for and the rise of the modern EU which she feared. It lays bare her growing quarrels with colleagues and reveals the truth about her political assassination. Moore's three-part biography of Britain's most important peacetime prime minister paints an intimate political and personal portrait of the victories and defeats, the iron will but surprising vulnerability of the woman who dominated in an age of male power. This is the full, enthralling story.

Author : E. Bruce Geelhoed,James F. Hobbs
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275941482

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Margaret Thatcher by E. Bruce Geelhoed,James F. Hobbs Pdf

This volume studies Margaret Thatcher and her influence on British politics with the American reader in mind. E. Bruce Geelhoed interprets Thatcher's strengths and weaknesses as a political leader and analyzes the important trends in modern British politics. Drawing on the author's own experience as an expatriate eyewitness to the latter part of the Thatcher era, interviews with numerous British scholars and political observers, and a thorough examination of relevant published sources on the Thatcher years, this book provides an unique analysis of this extraordinary woman's leadership and the closing years of her era. Scholars and general readers in modern British history and politics will find this fascinating reading, both for its chronicle of the latter Thatcher years and its insightful analysis of that prime minister's strengths and weakness, accomplishments and failures.

Author : Alan Watkins
Publisher : Duckworth Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082124129

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A Conservative Coup by Alan Watkins Pdf

Alan Watkins covers the Thatcher resignation and examines the underlying causes of the fall from power.

Author : Eric J. Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1280025328

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Thatcher and Thatcherism by Eric J. Evans Pdf

Thatcherism produced dramatic changes in most aspects of public life, both in Britain and abroad. Thatcher and Thatcherism surveys the origins and impact of Thatcherism as a cultural construct and an economic creed. Centring on the career of Margaret Thatcher, the author argues that Thatcherism was a bold experiment in ideologically driven government which failed to meet its objectives. Thatcher and Thatcherism includes discussion of: privatisation and the fate of the trade unions Britain's slow economic decline versus Thatcher's delusions of British grandeur the legacy of the Falklands and of Britain's approach to Europe education, the civil service and crime the poll tax fiasco. This expanded second edition brings the book up-to-date to consider the Blair administration in the light of the Thatcherite legacy and draws on the latest memoirs from politicians of the period, particularly concerning Thatcher's fall. The second edition also includes a critical summary of the general elections since 1979 and a chronology of key events and a glossary of leading political figures of the era.

Author : Stephen Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350115392

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Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990 by Stephen Kelly Pdf

Winner of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles The first woman elected to lead a major Western power and the longest serving British prime minister for 150 years, Margaret Thatcher is arguably one the most dominant and divisive forces in 20th-century British politics. Yet there has been no overarching exploration of the development of Thatcher's views towards Northern Ireland from her appointment as Conservative Party leader in 1975 until her forced retirement in 1990. In this original and much-needed study, Stephen Kelly rectifies this. From Thatcher's 'no surrender' attitude to the Republican hunger strikes to her nurturing role in the early stages of the Northern Ireland peace process, Kelly traces the evolutionary and sometimes contradictory nature of Thatcher's approach to Northern Ireland. In doing so, this book reflects afresh on the political relationship between Britain and Ireland in the late-20th century. An engaging and nuanced analysis of previously neglected archival and reported sources, Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990 is a vital resource for those interested in Thatcherism, Anglo-Irish relations, and 20th-century British political history more broadly.

Author : John Campbell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780712667814

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Margaret Thatcher by John Campbell Pdf

The first volume of John Campbell's biography of Margaret Thatcher was praised by Frank Johnson in the Daily Telegraph as 'much the best book yet written about Lady Thatcher'.

Author : Charles Moore
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101947203

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Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone by Charles Moore Pdf

The masterful and definitive biography of Britain's first female prime minister reaches its climax with the story of her zenith and her fall, and “reveals a complex figure who had a lasting and lastingly controversial impact on her country and on history" (The New York Times Book Review). How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the woman who won the Cold War and three general elections in succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs? Charles Moore's full account, based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher herself, her papers, and her closest associates, tells the story of her last period in office, her combative retirement, and the controversy that surrounded her even in death. It includes the fall of the Berlin Wall, which she had fought for, and the rise of the modern EU that she feared. It lays bare her growing quarrels with colleagues and reveals the truth about her political assassination. Moore's three-part biography of Britain's most important peacetime prime minister paints an intimate political and personal portrait of the victories and defeats, the iron will but surprising vulnerability of the woman who dominated in an age of male power. This is the full, enthralling story.

Author : Hugo Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081941044

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One of Us by Hugo Young Pdf

With the dramatic fall of Margaret Thatcher, the author has updated and revised his biography to assess her decline as well as to expand the earlier part of the book.

Author : Margaret Thatcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0002553554

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The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher Pdf

"Not the least interesting aspects of the book are the author's incidental insights into diplomacy ('the twin, opposing, temptations of statesmen are hubris and timidity'), political morality ('what is morally right often turns out to be politically expedient') and her own style and tone ('once I begin to follow a train of thought, I am not easily stopped'). It is a work intensely - sometimes unconsciously - revealing of the mind and personality of its author. The impression which emerges is, as one recent commentator put it, of a world-class battleship at full steam ahead. Her thoroughness, her passion for change, her tenacity and her astonishing determination are evident in every chapter of the book."--Jacket.

Author : Eric J. Evans
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : 9780415270137

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Thatcher and Thatcherism by Eric J. Evans Pdf

Thatcherism produced dramatic changes in most aspects of public life, both in Britain and abroad. This work surveys the origins and impact of Thatcherism as a cultural construct and an economic creed. Centering on the career of Margaret Thatcher, the author argues that Thatcherism was a bold experiment in ideologically driven government which failed to meet its objectives.

Author : Charles Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0713992824

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Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore Pdf

Not For Turning is the first volume of 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. Charles Moore's biography of Margaret Thatcher, published after her death on 8 April 2013, immediately supercedes all earlier books written about her. At the moment when she becomes a historical figure, this book also makes her into a three dimensional one for the first time. It gives unparalleled insight into her early life and formation, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, which Moore is the first author to draw on. It recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British politics as she was making her way, and takes her up to what was arguably the zenith of her power, victory in the Falklands. (This volume ends with the Falklands Dinner in Downing Street in November 1982.) Moore is clearly an admirer of his subject, but he does not shy away from criticising her or identifying weaknesses and mistakes where he feels it is justified. Based on unrestricted access to all Lady Thatcher's papers, unpublished interviews with her and all her major colleagues, this is the indispensable, fully rounded portrait of a towering figure of our times.

Author : Dennis Kavanagh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015017749972

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Thatcherism and British Politics by Dennis Kavanagh Pdf

Margaret Thatcher is the only 20th-century prime minister to have given her name to a style as well as a doctrine. Although the final balance sheet of the successes and failures of Thatcherism is yet to be tallied, this book places the government of Mrs. Thatcher in the perspective of postwar British politics. Here, Kavanagh describes how a postwar political consensus--covering full employment, welfare, conciliation of the trade unions, a mixed economy with state intervention, and social engineering--was established with the support of dominant groups in the Conservative and Labour parties. He then shows how that settlement broke down in the face of economic problems, changes in policies and personnel in the main parties, and the challenge to the intellectual bases of the consensus mounted by groups on the New Right. The book concludes with an insightful analysis of the government's record, and of prospects for a new consensus. Mrs. Thatcher has cited the breaking of the consensus as one of her primary political objectives, and in this penetrating study she emerges both as the architect of the collapse of consensus and as its product.

Author : Patrick Cosgrave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0099184303

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Margaret Thatcher by Patrick Cosgrave Pdf

Author : Charles Moore
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781846146497

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Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore Pdf

Not For Turning is the first volume of 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. Charles Moore's biography of Margaret Thatcher, published after her death on 8 April 2013, immediately supercedes all earlier books written about her. At the moment when she becomes a historical figure, this book also makes her into a three dimensional one for the first time. It gives unparalleled insight into her early life and formation, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, which Moore is the first author to draw on. It recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British politics as she was making her way, and takes her up to what was arguably the zenith of her power, victory in the Falklands. (This volume ends with the Falklands Dinner in Downing Street in November 1982.) Moore is clearly an admirer of his subject, but he does not shy away from criticising her or identifying weaknesses and mistakes where he feels it is justified. Based on unrestricted access to all Lady Thatcher's papers, unpublished interviews with her and all her major colleagues, this is the indispensable, fully rounded portrait of a towering figure of our times.