Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

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Partly as a result of that, he has this very tight identification in his argument between personal freedom and economic freedom and you can totally see why that was very persuasive throughout most of the 20th century. Was she touchy on that subject because, actually, it was something she was conscious that she had not been able to tackle, or tackled inadequately?

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If you’re not interested in certain questions, such as foreign policy, he does go on a bit about that. Maybe but Charles Moore has written a page-turning book about one of Britain's most influential, and depending on one's standpoint, revered or detested prime ministers. When he’s covering his period working as Ted Heath’s permanent private secretary, he’s constantly saying, ‘I mucked something else up at this point,’ and, ‘I got this wrong,’ and, ‘Oh Jesus, why did I do this? Rising through the ranks of this man’s world, she led the Conservative Party to victory in 1979, becoming Britain's first woman prime minister.

Thatcher was interviewed with David Frost on Breakfast with Frost about her memoirs, [15] and she promoted her book with radio and television interviews, book signings, a question and answer session at the Barbican chaired by Jeffrey Archer and a four-part BBC television series. I put him on my knee and Mrs T gurgled with him and played with him and then she started to cut my food up for me, saying to my son, ‘Daddy’s got to eat, too, you know.

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Oddly enough, there are only two political memoirs that I’ve read that I thought were really brilliant. I think when he said that Hayek didn’t really understand how Britain worked, that was something at the front of his mind, that Hayek didn’t understand that we had to have a national health service, because we weren’t a brutal country like the Austria that had invited Hitler in. Above all, Charles has presented to the world a completely honest and accurate account of Margaret Thatcher. Simon Heffer, journalist, historian and friend of Margaret Thatcher, recommends the best books to read to gain an understanding of the United Kingdom's first female prime minister—and explains why she was the most influential British leader of the modern era. Moore's not saying - perhaps that is for the second half, for yes, gentle reader, there is Moore to come (sorry).

But, if you want to understand the whole phenomenon of Thatcherism, which is not just what she did but also what everyone tried to prevent her from doing, you have to read Hugo’s book.