Downing Street Years
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This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers.
Margaret Thatcher
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.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Can't download why ???
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5the reviewer below, (lunza) is totally right about the laundry list. I went to A, called B, signed on for C on a matter of principle!It could be due to my younger relative age ('83) that i found thatcher to be older fashioned and less progressive than i always assume a political leader should be. so lordly and royal. i was mildly appalled at times when shed eloquently reason the cause of crime in a city due to "the idle hands of youth" and surmise the solution to end the crime may be afterschool organizations or church groups. some crap like that. national, generational, class divide alienated me from this woman. good book for alienating a midwest, midclass american youth, i guess.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I was kind of disappointed, because it seemed to me like a laundry list of "and then I did this, and then I did that, and then I met this head of state, and then this bloody fool stabbed me in the back, and the liberals said this stupid thing." I am by no means a fan of her politics, but I used to love to watch the PM's Question Time on C-SPAN because she was a marvelous debater. Maybe the volume that covers her early years would be more interesting to me.