Bøger af Margaret Thatcher

Los años de Downing Street es un brillante retrato de los hechos y las personas de los primeros años de la que fuera primera ministra británica Margaret Thatcher en el poder. La Dama de Hierro nos cuenta en primera persona, haciendo gala de una precisión demoledora, cómo fueron los primeros momentos de su acceso al cargo --la mayoría de ellos críticos--, las tres victorias electorales, las guerra de las Malvinas, la huelga de los mineros, la bomba de Brighton, el asunto Westland, sus enfrentamientos con determinados ministros faltos del suficiente ánimo o mal aconsejados, así como sus opiniones sobre las diferentes personas con quienes va tratando, tanto estadistas de talla internacional como miembros de su propio Gabinete, sobre las que vierte juicios de una franqueza absoluta. El recuerdo de aquellos años configura la personalidad, y la trayectoria y los acontecimientos, los personajes y los sucesos que se describen dentro de una trama política de tintes novelescos nos ofrecen la imagen perfecta de la hasta ahora única primera ministra británica, dispuesta a cambiar Reino Unido y su papel en el gran teatro del mundo. Una obra magistral, llena de fuerza y convicción, en la que Margaret Thatcher expone la base de sus creencias y el modo en el que supo convertirlas en hechos durante su gobierno. Su perfeccionismo, su pasión por el cambio, su tenacidad y su asombrosa determinación son evidencias palpables en cada una de las páginas de este libro. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Los años de Downing Street is a brilliant portrait of events and people during the first years of Margaret Thatcher's career as British Prime Minister. A towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics, the woman who became known as the Iron Lady recounts her remarkable life in her own words. Her memoirs are a riveting first-hand portrait of the events and personalities of her eleven years in power. She recalls the triumphs and the critical moments of her premiership the Falklands War, the miners' strike, the Brighton bomb, the Westland Affair and her unprecedented three election victories. Her judgments of the men and women she encountered, whether world statesmen or Cabinet colleagues, are astonishingly frank. She is lavish with her praise; devastating with her criticism. The book reaches a gripping climax with an hour-by-hour description from inside 10 Downing Street of her dramatic final days in office. Margaret Thatcher's compelling account stands as a powerful testament to her influential legacy.

Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great Britain. No other prime minister in modern times sought to change the British nation and its place in the world as radically as she did.Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is the story of her remarkable life told in her own words--the definitive account of an extraordinary woman and consummate politician, bringing together her bestselling memoirs The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power. Writing candidly about her upbringing and early years and the formation of her character and values, she details the experiences that propelled her to the very top in a man's world. She offers a riveting firsthand history of the major events, the crises and triumphs, during her eleven years as prime minister, including the Falklands War, the Brighton hotel bombing, the Westland affair, the final years of the Cold War, and her unprecedented three election victories. Thatcher's judgments of the men and women she encountered during her time in power-from statesmen, premiers, and presidents to Cabinet colleagues-are astonishingly frank, and she recalls her dramatic final days in office with a gripping, hour-by-hour description from inside 10 Downing Street. Powerful, candid, and compelling, Margaret Thatcher stands as a testament to a great leader's significant legacy.

First published in her pioneering treatise Statecraft, the opinions and projections of the former Prime Minister on Europe remain potent and resoundingly prophetic.Margaret Thatcher foresaw the European Union as a swelling superstate, gradually eroding Britain's freedom. Irreparable and doomed, European integration did not allow for the birthright of nationhood. It was the most recent incarnation of an idea that has been tried many times before, and the outcomes were far from happy. "e;During my lifetime,"e; she says, "e;most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it."e;

This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime MinisterThis first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers.

A fascinating account of the journey towards number 10 Downing street read by Lady Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher's government was, she says, about the application of a philosophy, not the implementation of an administrative programme. These ideas and beliefs were propelled throughout her time in office by a forcefulness and conviction, particularly in critical moments in her premiership - the Falklands War, the miner's strike, the Brighton bomb and her three election victories. In the second volume of her memoirs, following "e;The Downing Street Years"e;, she reveals the inspiration behind many of her philosophies. She discusses the formative years of her childhood in Grantham, the values she learnt at home, the profound influence of her shopkeeeping father, and of her own schooling on future Conservative education policies. She recounts her days at Oxford, her academic work as a scientist, marriage to Dennis, and the beginning of her career as a politician when in 1959 she was selected to stand at Finchley.