The Downing Street Years

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What is remarkable about this extensive overview of domestic, European, and foreign affairs is the candid assessments she lays down. Anecdotes are included but they are all relevent to the content of the chapter and never distracting from the flow of the book. Full blue leather, gilt title and decorations, raised bands w/gilt panels, all edges gilt, silk endpapers and page-marker, (9. In 1881, William Ewart Gladstone claimed residence in numbers 10, 11 and 12 for himself and his family. Thatcher read chemistry at Oxford and worked in the lab that invented soft serve ice cream), as from the prologue one is immersed in highly technocratic jargon and a very dry chronological recitation of events.She was, and is, an uncompromising advocate of the fact that the government that governs best is one that governs least. Helpfully the chapters are subdivided into smaller sections allowing a further break up of your reading. Wyatt countered this by stating that the chairman of the publishing house Collins had tried to get him to persuade Thatcher to publish her memoirs with Collins and Thatcher herself seemed favourable to this option. It's almost like watching old film of Adolf Hitler: it makes you wonder, how did this person ever get to become leader of a country? Volume IV: The Downing Street Years, 1934–1940, The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 494, December 2006, Pages 1496–1498, https://doi.

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And despite the rhetoric which sough to cast Labour and the unions as noble defenders of the working man, many of the Thatcher government’s reforms were undeniably beneficial to workers’ rights—e. And unlike Bill Clinton, who seems to like EVERYONE, Thatcher has a lively interest in revenge upon political enemies and even a few soi-disant supporters. If you admire Margaret Thatcher, and I do, and think she was correct, and I do, then you'll find the book engaging, enlightening, sometimes entertaining, and, in parts, oddly endearing. On backside of page is a personal account of how the previous owner received this book, while attending a luncheon where Margaret Thatcher was the guest speaker.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. Christopher Klein is the author of four books, including When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland’s Freedom and Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L. The increase in security was due to an increase in violence, particularly by the IRA during The Troubles.

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I admit I skimmed some highly detailed economic parts about the battle over the Euro near the end, but jumped right back in after a few pages. One cannot deny, when one soberly assesses, without all the misconceptions and clouding of emotion, that her logic and convictions drove Britain out of decline and onto a path of economic and social prosperity.

I found the sections on the Falkland war, the Iranian embassy siege and the fall of the USSR particularly interesting. I have studied much about the collapse of the Soviet Union and it's relations with the United States, so Thatcher's discussion of these events and the repercussions to Europe were particularly interesting. The proposal came with assurances that tourists would still be permitted to take photographs at the door of Number 10. But the balance of the book was her dislocating her arm while patting herself on the back for solving all the world's problems. Larry, the Downing Street cat, gets in the royal wedding spirit in a Union flag bow-tie before the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

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A maze of corridors and passages join 10 Downing Street to a bigger and grander building just behind it. Central heating was installed in 1937 and the attic rooms converted into a flat for the Prime Minister. Finding the original bright yellow color too jarring, workers ultimately replicated the dark exterior with a coat of black paint. Labour moved Britain towards statism; the Tories stood pat; and the next Labour Government moved the country a little further left.As there are 862 pages of text, of such a density that I would defy even the fastest reader fully to absorb them at the rate of more than 50 an hour (I could sustain only about 35) this meant that even a total insomniac, who added to this attribute the ability to dictate a full review in half an hour, could not have completed the task before dawn on the day of publication, or, still more relevantly, got beyond page 300 by the time that any of Monday's newspapers went to press. Thatcher’s focus over these many pages can be boiled down to four primary challenges which she saw facing Britain and the world when she assumed office in 1979: longterm economic decline, the debilitating effects of socialism, the growing Soviet threat, and the inexorable trudge toward economic and monetary union (EMU) for the European Community. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. Suffice it to say that a similar strike had toppled the Conservative government of Ted Heath some 10 years earlier.