Preface
1: Bound for Politics
2: Unexpected Leader
3: Challenging Beginnings
4: Victory Overseas
5: Enemies Within
6: Thatcherism Triumphant?
7: Isolation and Defenestration
8: Aftermath and Afterlife
Guide to Sources
Dramatis Personae
Glossary
Chronology
Opinion Polls Graph
Index
Professor Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at
Princeton University and General Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography. He is one of the world's best-known historians
and historical biographers, and an expert on Churchill and
political leadership. The author or editor of thirty books, David
Cannadine is also a regular broadcaster on radio and television.
His most recent publications include The Undivided Past (2013)
and George V: the Unexpected King (2014), as well as the series
Prime Ministers' Props for BBC Radio 4 (2016).
Condensed biography with excellent analysis... David Cannadine
Margaret Thatcher A Life and Legacy (OUP) is just the ticket.
*Keith Simpson, Total Politics*
This carefully crafted essay is welcome above all because it
concisely distils major episodes such as the "Big Bang"
*WM Roger Louis, Times Literary Supplement*
The historian is successful in setting the "Iron Lady" in the
broader historical context.
*Thompson Chau, Myanmar Times*
An elegant, even-handed and economical overview of the life and
legacy of Margaret Thatcher
*Robbie Millen, The Times*
This concise book avoids the usual controversies and offers a new
analysis of Thatcher's sweeping economic reforms ... artfully
concise book
*William Davies, The Guardian*
This short format, shorn of extraneous detail, makes it somehow
easier to take an overview of the Thatcher years.
*Roland White, The Sunday Times*
a masterpiece of compression
*John Campbell, Financial Times*
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