Iron lady margaret thatcher biography books
The Iron Lady - Abridged By John Campbell (paperback) - Target.
Iron lady margaret thatcher biography books
The Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher
November 7, 2022
The interest of this interim biography, written as Margaret Thatcher was half way through her third ministry but before her fall from power in 1990, lies in its contemporaneous assessment of her at the height of her powers by a fair-minded member of the centre-left establishment.
Hugo Young was the classic old-style Guardianista and was to become the Chairman of The Scott Trust which owned The Guardian and other news media.
The interest of this interim biography, written as Margaret Thatcher was half way through her third ministry but before her fall from power in 1990, lies in its contemporaneous assessment of her at the height of her powers by a fair-minded member of the centre-left establishment.
Hugo Young was the classic old-style Guardianista and was to become the Chairman of The Scott Trust which owned The Guardian and other news media.
As such, he represented precisely the cultural 'noblesse oblige' of the British elite that Thatcher tended to sweep aside.
However, he was also a fine and honest journalist, again of the old school, so his approach to political biography remains fact-based, unemotional and fair-minded about someone who could excite visceral emotions for and against.
Although now outdated, it stands as a source if only because Young was in a position to interview actors in the drama off and on the record.
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