The Path to Power - Couverture souple

Thatcher, Margaret

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 000745662X ISBN 13 : 9780007456628

Editeur : HarperPress, 2012

Synopsis

The Path to Power The extraordinary account of Margaret Thatcher's life up to her dramatic election as the first woman Prime Minister of England in 1979. Full description

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Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great Britain. No other prime minister in modern times sought to change the British nation and its place in the world as radically as she did.

Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is the story of her remarkable life told in her own words--the definitive account of an extraordinary woman and consummate politician, bringing together her bestselling memoirs The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power. Writing candidly about her upbringing and early years and the formation of her character and values, she details the experiences that propelled her to the very top in a man's world. She offers a riveting firsthand history of the major events, the crises and triumphs, during her eleven years as prime minister, including the Falklands War, the Brighton hotel bombing, the Westland affair, the final years of the Cold War, and her unprecedented three election victories. Thatcher's judgments of the men and women she encountered during her time in power-from statesmen, premiers, and presidents to Cabinet colleagues-are astonishingly frank, and she recalls her dramatic final days in office with a gripping, hour-by-hour description from inside 10 Downing Street. Powerful, candid, and compelling, Margaret Thatcher stands as a testament to a great leader's significant legacy.

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The extraordinary account of Margaret Thatcher s life up to her dramatic election as the first woman Prime Minister of England in 1979.

Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. This is the story of her remarkable life in her own words.

In this second volume of her memoirs, following The Downing Street Years , she writes candidly about the experiences that propelled her to the very top in a man's world. Beginning with her upbringing in Grantham, she goes on to describe her Oxford years, marriage to Denis, and entry into Parliament at a time when there were no more than a handful of women MPs. Rising through the ranks to Education Secretary and then Leader of the Opposition, she led the Conservative Party to a historic victory in the 1979 general election, becoming Britain's first female prime minister.

Margaret Thatcher's compelling account stands as a powerful testament to her influential legacy.

Although The Path to Power is not available as an ebook, the ebook Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography (ISBN 978-0-00-741694-3) comprises abridged versions of this and the second volume of Thatcher s memoirs, The Downing Street Years .

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HarperPress
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 000745662X
• ISBN 13: 9780007456628
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512