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24%OFFBrenda Maddox - Maggie - The First Lady: The woman behind the title - 9780340825464 - V9780340825464
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Maggie - The First Lady: The woman behind the title

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Description for Maggie - The First Lady: The woman behind the title Paperback. A book about Margaret Thatcher by award-winning biographer Brenda Maddox. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 x 8 pages colour and b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; BGH; JPFM; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 228.

Who was Margaret Thatcher? Her influence on politics is well documented - not least by Lady Thatcher herself. What no one has attempted before this book by award-winning biographer Brenda Maddox, is to present the personal story of the woman who has been described as 'the most significant Englishwoman since Elizabeth I'.

Brenda Maddox traces the life of the grocer's daughter from Grantham who became the most successful Conservative Prime Minister of the twentieth century. Unprecedented access to people who knew her throughout her life, (some who have never spoken before) enables the author to paint a fully rounded ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340825464
SKU
V9780340825464
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99-10

About Brenda Maddox
Brenda Maddox is an award-winning biographer whose work has been translated into ten languages. NORA: A BIOGRAPHY OF NORA JOYCE won the Los Angeles Times Biography Award, the Silver PEN Award, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and was shortlisted for the National Book Award. Her life of D.H. Lawrence won the Whitbread Biography Award and GEORGE'S GHOSTS, on ... Read more

Reviews for Maggie - The First Lady: The woman behind the title
Elegantly written...what makes Brenda Maddox's biography so compelling is the interweaving of the personal and political. Perhaps the most rounded profile yet of this unique woman.
Birmingham Post
There are new insights...Maddox paints a vivid picture of the very different world of a provincial town in the 1930s. Equally vivid is the account of Thatcher's first attempt to ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Maggie - The First Lady: The woman behind the title


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