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Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy
Mr David Cannadine
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Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime minister. The longest serving British premier of the twentieth century, Mrs Thatcher has been the subject of both adulation and vilification. In Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy, the leading historian Sir David Cannadine sets Margaret Thatcher in the context of recent British history. With elegance, wit, and historical insight, Cannadine charts Mrs Thatcher's upbringing and influences, her political career and life after politics, the impact of her policies, and her ... Read more
Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime minister. The longest serving British premier of the twentieth century, Mrs Thatcher has been the subject of both adulation and vilification. In Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy, the leading historian Sir David Cannadine sets Margaret Thatcher in the context of recent British history. With elegance, wit, and historical insight, Cannadine charts Mrs Thatcher's upbringing and influences, her political career and life after politics, the impact of her policies, and her ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198795001
SKU
V9780198795001
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About Mr David Cannadine
Professor Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University and General Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is one of the world's best-known historians and historical biographers, and an expert on Churchill and political leadership. The author or editor of thirty books, David Cannadine is also a regular broadcaster on radio and television. His ... Read more
Reviews for Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy
Condensed biography with excellent analysis... David Cannadine Margaret Thatcher A Life and Legacy (OUP) is just the ticket.
Keith Simpson, Total Politics
This carefully crafted essay is welcome above all because it concisely distils major episodes such as the "Big Bang"
WM Roger Louis, Times Literary Supplement
The historian is successful in setting the "Iron Lady" ... Read more
Keith Simpson, Total Politics
This carefully crafted essay is welcome above all because it concisely distils major episodes such as the "Big Bang"
WM Roger Louis, Times Literary Supplement
The historian is successful in setting the "Iron Lady" ... Read more