Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

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She was touchy because she knew it was something that, as part of her programme, she ought to have done. I read the speech on the plane going over and I remember just saying to the journalist next to me, ‘Enoch wrote this 20 years ago. He must have meant several holidays because he usual fare, The Motley Fool Guide to Miser-ness and lists of tennis championships, kept him occupied most of the time.

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Enoch learned his economics from Adam Smith and Hayek was a great admirer of Adam Smith, of course, but Hayek tried to put it in terms that are relevant to the mid-20th century, at a time when he realised, in a way that I think Churchill didn’t, that a Labour government was probably going to turn up sooner rather than later and that there would be demand, after the privations of war, for welfarism on a quite excessive scale.

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With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century. The final chapters on the Falklands were especially interesting as they reveal how close it all came to going horribly wrong. And I always think that, to an extent, that’s the way Mrs T saw us and the Americans, but that’s probably being very unfair.

Ayn Rand said that the difference between the welfare state and a totalitarian state is “only a matter of time. There were lots of branded drugs that cost five times as much as their generic equivalent—where the patent had expired.

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The Prime Minister found herself increasingly at odds with her Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, on all questions touching European integration.I don’t know if Hugo Young would have known Margaret Thatcher personally, but this book is an unsympathetic view of Thatcher. It may not change your views of her, but the time invested in reading this volume will be worth your while. And she understood that, as a stateswoman, she had the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that everything went well here. Years ago, before we went on a trip, my friend Andrew, knowing I was a librarian, asked me for a reading list for the holidays so he wouldn't feel so left out whilst everyone else was buried in A Suitable Boy.

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By doing so, Margaret Thatcher laid the foundation for a much more vigorous and independent British foreign policy during the rest of the 1980s.And I can’t imagine that there’s very much anyone would want to know about Mrs Thatcher that’s not in it. There were rumours the book would not be helpful to her successor, John Major, and these were confirmed when the Daily Mirror leaked her views that Major had "swallowed.