Thatcher's trial : six months that defined a leader / Kwasi Kwarteng.
"Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister in 1979, the first woman to hold the position, and the first woman in the Western world to lead a nation. Within two years she was beset by troubles, and it seemed her historic government would be short-lived. In 1981 unemployment had risen to level...
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Portrait of a lady
- Friends, foes and the '81 budget
- Civil War on the Left
- Death in Ireland
- Riots
- 'Among friends'
- Purge of the 'wets'
- Epilogue.