Bookbot

Margaret Thatcher: HerinneringenReeks

Deze serie duikt in het leven en de politieke carrière van een van de meest invloedrijke Britse premiers. Het biedt een diepgaand inzicht in de vorming van haar overtuigingen, van haar kindertijd en familiewaarden tot haar vormende universitaire jaren en het begin van haar politieke reis. Lezers vinden gedetailleerde verslagen van cruciale momenten in haar ambtsperiode, inclusief belangrijke beslissingen en internationale crises die haar tijdperk hebben gevormd.

Downing Street No. 10
The path to power
The Downing Street Years
Margaret Thatcher - The Autobiography
Margaret Thatcher

Aanbevolen leesvolgorde

  1. 1

    The path to power

    4,0(36)Tarief

    The Path to Power is a memoir by former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher covering her life from her birth in 1925 until she became Prime Minister in 1979. 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

    The path to power
  2. 2

    The Downing Street Years

    4,0(1228)Tarief

    "The appearance of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs has been one of the most eagerly awaited publishing events in many years. As this book now shows, rarely has such a sense of anticipation been so amply justified." "The Downing Street Years is, first and foremost, a brilliant first-hand portrayal of the events and personalities of her years in power. She gives riveting accounts of the great and critical moments of her premiership - the three election victories, the Falklands War, the Miners' Strike, the Brighton Bomb, the Westland Affair, her battles abroad with foreign federalists and at home with faint-hearted or misguided ministers. Her judgements of the men and women she has encountered, whether world statesmen or Cabinet colleagues, are completely, sometimes brutally, frank. She is lavish with praise where it is due; devastating in her criticism when it is not. The book ends with an account of her last days which is as gripping as anything in thriller fiction." "But The Downing Street Years is as much an argument as it is a record or a series of character portraits. No prime minister of modern times has sought to change Britain and its place in the world as radically as she did. Her government, she says, was about the application of a philosophy, not the implementation of an administrative programme. She sets out here with forcefulness and conviction the reasons for her beliefs and how she sought to turn them into action."

    The Downing Street Years
  3. 2

  • Margaret Thatcher

    • 832bladzijden
    • 30 uur lezen
    4,0(51)Tarief

    Britain's first female Prime Minister - and the only British Prime Minister of the 20th century to win three consecutive general elections - shares her story as only she can in this engaging memoir.

    Margaret Thatcher

  • Margaret Thatcher - The Autobiography

    4,3(21)Tarief

    Margaret Thatcher, arguable the most significant figure of the late-twentieth-century British politics, died on 8 April 2013. Combining and abridging her memoirs 'The Path to Power' and 'The Downing Street Years', this definitive account of Margaret Thatcher's life is published as a one volume commemorative edition.

    Margaret Thatcher - The Autobiography