Margaret Thatcher: Wife, Mother, Politician by Junor, Penny

Margaret Thatcher: Wife, Mother, Politician by Junor, Penny

Hardcover, ISBN 9780283989698
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984 first Edition.
Used - Very Good +.Book and beautiful DJ protected with a Cellophane cover.

Traces the personal life and political career of Margaret Thatcher and discusses her actions as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Sunday Times bestseller

‘A book which is entertaining, readable and starkly honest’, John Mortimer, The Sunday Times

‘I enjoyed every word of Penny Junor’s biography’, Valerie Grove, The Standard

‘Those who enjoyed Penny Junor’s first biography, Diana, Princess of Wales, as I did, will be even more impressed by her study of another celebrated woman. Though sympathetic, it is not hagiography.’ Elizabeth Longford, Good Book Guide.~

In this perceptive and entertaining biography, penny Junor has concentrated on looking beneath the political image of Margaret Thatcher to find the woman, the mother and the wife. She seeks to discover what kind of human being it is that took the responsibility of war with Argentina, witnessed more and more people becoming unemployed, and refused to waver from her course when even senior members of her own party have said publicly that she is wrong. After months of talking to family, friends and colleagues; opponenets, critics and employees; Penny Juno finds a lady with some phenomenal strengths and some touching weaknesses. Her conclusion is that Margaret Thatcher is neither an iron Lady, as the Russians christened her, nor the Best Man in Britain, as President Reagan quipped, but an extremely hard-working professional, driven by a divine belief in old-fashioned virtues. He has used every means at her disposal - including her sex - to try to do what she believes will make Britain great again. History will finally be the judge of whether she was right. Illustrated. 226 pp.