The Iron Lady
Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer’s Daughter to Iron Lady
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Jan '12
Should be back in stock very soon
Read the true story that inspired the major new film, The Iron Lady. John Campbell's magisterial biography is the political biography of Margaret Thatcher.
Traces the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge to Edward Heath for leadership of the Conservative party and her eventual removal from power.
'An enormously useful achievement...every twist and turn of her political life is here' The Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge for leadership of the Conservative party to her eleven tumultuous years in Downing Street and her eventual removal from power.
This is an extraordinary account of an extraordinary individual who changed the face of Britain; John Campbell portrays an ambitious and determined woman who started cautiously, grew in confidence after the Falklands War but became increasingly remote and domineering until she finally lost the trust of her colleagues.
Anyone who really wants to know what happened between 1979 and 1990 should read this book -- John Rentoul * Daily Telegraph *
The best book yet written about Lady Thatcher -- Frank Johnson * Daily Telegraph *
Superbly researched...unlike so many others is neither hagiography nor hatchet-job, and probably gets closer to the truth than any...magnificently told * Sunday Express *
An enormously useful achievement...every twist and turn of her political life is here * The Times, Books of the Year *
[A] thorough biography... brought together in a useful abridged paperback version... Campbell is a leading political biographer... Campbell's vivid account is easy to read * Financial Times *
The best post-power biography is John Campbell's intensely detailed two-volume Margaret Thatcher. Anyone who wants to know what she did should turn to it * Guardian *
Campbell's style is cool, detached, offering sympathy, praise, criticism, and blame in equal measure... It's an enlightened and enlightening portrayal of Thatcher and other key political figures of the 1980s * The Independent on Sunday *
John Campbell's biography... is the most fair-minded and scrupulous study of Lady Thatcher yet * The Times *
A fascinating peek behind the handbag' * Viewspaper *
How Britain’s first woman prime minister achieved her full political ascendency is a story brilliantly told in John Campbell’s biography -- Richard Aldons * Sunday Telegraph (Seven) *
ISBN: 9780099575160
Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 38mm
Weight: 404g
592 pages