Book description
"An enormously useful achievement...every twist and turn of her
political life is here" - The Times, Books of the Year
In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes
on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime
Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge
for leadership of the Conservative party to her eleven tumultuous
years in Downing Street and her eventual removal from power.
This is an extraordinary account of an extraordinary individual who
changed the face of Britain; John Campbell portrays an ambitious and
determined woman who started cautiously, grew in confidence after the
Falklands War but became increasingly remote and domineering until she
finally lost the trust of her colleagues.
John Campbell is recognised as one of Britain's leading political
biographers. In addition to
Edward Heath
, which won the NCR Award in 1994, his subjects have included Lloyd
George (1977), F. E. Smith, Lord Birkenhead (1983), Roy Jenkins (1983)
and Aneurin Bevan (1986). His most recent books are
If Love Were All:
The Story of Frances
Stevenson and David Lloyd George,
and
Pistols at Dawn,
published by Jonathan Cape in June 2009. He is currently writing the
authorised biography of Roy Jenkins.
