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Margaret Thatcher
The Authorized Biography
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Jan 12, 2027
- Page Count
- 1104 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Liberty
- ISBN-13
- 9781541609914
Price
$24.99Price
$32.99 CADFormat
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- ebook $24.99 $32.99 CAD
- Hardcover $50.00 $63.00 CAD
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“Not merely the authorized biography, Moore’s is the definitive biography of Thatcher, and perhaps one of the definitive books about Britain in the late twentieth century.” —Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books
With unparalleled authority and dramatic detail, Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher presents the whole history of the woman who transformed Britain and the world. With unique access to Thatcher’s private and governmental papers and interviews with her, her family, and her colleagues, Moore gives readers an unsurpassed portrait of her early years, her rise to power, and her revolutionary years as prime minister.
Moore guides us through Thatcher’s economic battles to her zenith at the Falklands crisis, her extraordinary three election victories, and her dramatic final days in office. He also illuminates Thatcher’s pivotal global role—including her influential friendship with Ronald Reagan, the end of the Cold War, and the fierce battle over Europe’s future. He shows how she pioneered privatization and how “Thatcherism” became both welcomed and contested across the world. Throughout, Moore illuminates Thatcher’s complex and determined character—and the challenges she faced as a woman in a male-dominated world—but is by no means uncritical. He shows what was remarkable about her and what was infuriating, her extraordinary strengths, and her sometimes surprising vulnerability.
This edition combines the insights of the original three volumes, providing a comprehensive portrait of one of the most influential figures of her age, whose life reminds us today of the power of great leadership.
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“One of the great biographical achievements of our times.”Sunday Times (UK)
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“Moore's great gift is his ability to make Thatcher's story fresh again, and above all to remind us of how odd she was ... The thoroughness of the research, the hundreds of interviews, and above all the access to her family and friends, enabled [him] to produce a multifaceted picture of a compelling life ... Although this is very much a narrative biography, it is also a book about ideas: where they come from, how they affect people and how they get shaped into policies ... one of the definitive books about Britain in the late twentieth century.”Daily Telegraph (UK)
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“Reviewers are supposed never to use the word ‘definitive’ about a history book or biography, but with Charles Moore's life of Margaret Thatcher, one has no other option. ... an absolute masterpiece of the biographer's art.”Daily Telegraph (UK)
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“Moore's project is a study of detailed depth, and fine and transparent judgements, which rises to the largeness of a figure and a time that were of world significance.”Financial Times (UK)
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“Excellent ... This book, a condensed version of Moore’s three-volume biography, makes it possible to appreciate her achievement.”Evening Standard (UK)
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“Moore has produced a biography so masterly—so packed with fascinating detail, with such a strong narrative drive, propelled by a central character who is at the same time both very bizarre and very conventional—that it comes as close as biography can come to being a work of art ... One of the many strengths of his book is that it never loses sight of just how unusual she was, in terms of both her personal psychology and her place in public life ... This book is a triumph of diligence [and] of narrative art and human understanding, at its centre a peculiar force of nature, never to be repeated.”Mail on Sunday (UK)
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“The definitive work of British political biography this century. Margaret Thatcher—published in a special centenary edition in a single volume—is not merely authoritative, but epic, capturing the sheer bravura oddness of Britain’s most consequential postwar prime minister and the lost world from which she came.”New Statesman, Books of the Year (UK)
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“One of the most thrilling, comprehensive, fair-minded and elegantly written biographies of modern times. It is full of complex argument, and a very large cast, but it is a joy to read.”New Statesman (UK)
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“This is a magnificent political biography which takes its place next to Robert Blake's Disraeli and Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson on the highest level ... extraordinarily compelling.”Spectator (UK)
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“A superb, definitive, and informative distillation of the life and times of the Iron Lady.”Jerusalem Post
