Author(s): Moore, Charles,
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 03/10/2019,
Pagination: 1072 pages, 24pp b/w inset,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Allen Lane,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Biography: historical political & military, Political leaders & leadership
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241324745

Description:

Description
Shortlisted for the 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister.

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.