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'A fascinating account... Campbell's research is as exhaustive as it is meticulous' Observer

When Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative Party leadership in 1975 the public knew her only as the archetypal Home Counties Tory Lady more famous for her hats than for any outstanding talent: she had a rich businessman husband sent her children to the most expensive private schools and sat in Parliament for Finchley.

Yet almost overnight she reinvented herself. Journalists who set out to discover where she came from were amazed to find that she had grown up above a grocer's shop in Grantham. Within weeks of her becoming Tory leader an entirely new image was in place based around the now famous corner shop beside the Great North Road; the strict Methodist upbringing; and her father who taught her the 'Victorian values' which were the foundations of her subsequent career.

In the first volume of the first full-scale biography of Margaret Thatcher since her fall from power - and the first thoroughly to explore her early life - John Campbell re-examines the mythology and suggests a more complex reality behind the idealised picture accepted by Lady Thatcher's early biographers. He portrays an ambitious and determined woman ruthlessly distancing herself from her roots until the moment in 1975 when they suddenly became a political asset.
'A fascinating account... Campbell's research is as exhaustive as it is meticulous' Observer

When Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative Party leadership in 1975 the public knew her only as the archetypal Home Counties Tory Lady more famous for her hats than for any outstanding talent: she had a rich businessman husband sent her children to the most expensive private schools and sat in Parliament for Finchley.

Yet almost overnight she reinvented herself. Journalists who set out to discover where she came from were amazed to find that she had grown up above a grocer's shop in Grantham. Within weeks of her becoming Tory leader an entirely new image was in place based around the now famous corner shop beside the Great North Road; the strict Methodist upbringing; and her father who taught her the 'Victorian values' which were the foundations of her subsequent career.

In the first volume of the first full-scale biography of Margaret Thatcher since her fall from power - and the first thoroughly to explore her early life - John Campbell re-examines the mythology and suggests a more complex reality behind the idealised picture accepted by Lady Thatcher's early biographers. He portrays an ambitious and determined woman ruthlessly distancing herself from her roots until the moment in 1975 when they suddenly became a political asset.
Über den Autor
John Campbell is the author of many biographies including one of Edward Heath, for which he won the 1994 NCR award, The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady and, most recently, Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown. He is married and lives in Kent.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780099516767
ISBN-10: 0099516764
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Campbell, John
Hersteller: Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: John Campbell
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2007
Gewicht: 0,643 kg
Artikel-ID: 131812539