How Margaret Thatcher's Resolute Politics Changed Britain

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Author Charles Moore discusses Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands, the first authorized biography of the British Prime Minister who championed conservative economic policies during the l980s. Using diaries, interviews and other primary sources, Moore charts Thatcher's early life and career, from her rise to political office to the Falklands War.

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