{"product_id":"margaret-thatcher-the-authorized-biography-volume-two-everything-she-wants-margaret-thatcher-the-authorised-biography-2-9780241573587","title":"Margaret Thatcher The Authorized Biography Volume","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe sensational second volume of Charles Moore''s bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government''s Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely authoritative biography, Britain''s first woman prime minister changed the course of her country''s history and that of the world, often by sheer force of will.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 affa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoore has finally completed one of the most thrilling, comprehensive, fair-minded and elegantly written biographies of modern times. It is full of complex argument, and a very large cast, but it is a joy to read\u003c\/b\u003e.—Andrew Marr, New Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviewers are supposed never to use the word \"definitive\" about a history book or biograph, but with Charles Moore's life of Margaret Thatcher, of which this is the triumphant last volume, one has no other option. ... an absolute masterpiece of the biographer's art.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e—Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoore's \u003ci\u003eMargaret Thatcher\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the truly great biographies. Throughout the three volumes it has been comprehensive and subtle, breaking new ground while being surefooted on familiar terrain. He provides a portrait of Thatcher - her anxiousness and her certainty, her strength and her frailty - that is surprising and fresh while still convincing. This volume completes a historical masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e.—Daniel Finkelstein, The Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNot merely the authorized biography, Moore's is the definitive biography of Thatcher, and perhaps one of the definitive books about Britain in the late twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e—Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a magnificent political biography which takes its place next to Robert Blake's \u003ci\u003eDisraeli\u003c\/i\u003e and Robert Caro's \u003ci\u003eLyndon Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e on the highest level\u003c\/b\u003e. Outstanding... superb... extraordinarily compelling.—Philip Hensher, Spectator","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733248225623,"sku":"9780241573587","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241573587.jpg?v=1719999759","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/margaret-thatcher-the-authorized-biography-volume-two-everything-she-wants-margaret-thatcher-the-authorised-biography-2-9780241573587","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}