The Path to Power - Margaret Thatcher

Thatcher, Margaret

ISBN 10: 0002550504 / ISBN 13: 9780002550505

Edité par HarperCollins, 1995

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This large, black coloured hardback book, with gilt title impressions on the spine, is in excellent condition, hardly ever used or read. Normal wear and marks apply, consistent with use and age. Dust jacket included which is also in super condition. All 656 pages intact, all pages, text and illustrations are in fabulous, clean and readable order. A brilliant insight into a political leader.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Path to Power - Margaret Thatcher
• Éditeur: HarperCollins
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0002550504
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780002550505
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

Margaret Thatcher's government was, she says, about the application of a philosophy, not the implementation of an administrative programme. These ideas and beliefs were propelled throughout her time in office by a forcefulness and conviction, particularly in critical moments in her premiership - the Falklands War, the miner's strike, the Brighton bomb and her three election victories. In the second volume of her memoirs, following "The Downing Street Years", she reveals the inspiration behind many of her philosophies. She discusses the formative years of her childhood in Grantham, the values she learnt at home, the profound influence of her shopkeeeping father, and of her own schooling on future Conservative education policies. She recounts her days at Oxford, her academic work as a scientist, marriage to Dennis, and the beginning of her career as a politician when in 1959 she was selected to stand at Finchley. She gives her views on the governments of Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath and Jim Callaghan, and sets out the development of her ideas during her time in opposition.

À propos de l?auteur

In 1979 Margaret Thatcher became the first woman British Prime Minister. A decade later she became the first premier for 160 years to win three consecutive general elections. In 1990 she resigned her leadership of an increasingly divided and turbulent government. She is the only PM to have given her name to a branch of political philosophy, and arguably the most important figure in postwar British politics.