There Is No Alternative Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

Name: There Is No Alternative Why Margaret Thatcher Matters
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ISBN: 9780465031214

ISBN-10: 0465031218

ISBN-13: 9780465031214

Edition: 2nd

Authors: Claire Berlinski

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Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline—ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the richest and most influential country in Europe, and Margaret Thatcher is the reason. The preternaturally determined Thatcher rose from nothing, seized control of Britain’s Conservative party, and took a sledgehammer to the nation’s postwar socialist consensus. She proved that socialism could be reversed, inspiring a global free-market revolution. Simultaneously exploiting every politically useful aspect of her femininity and defying every conventional expectation of women in power, Thatcher crushed her enemies with a…

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List price: $31.99
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 11/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.19" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.122



A Note on Style and Sources


Preface to the 2011 Edition


Preface to the Previous Edition



The Shrine of Mother Margaret



La Pasionaria of Middle-Class Privilege



"I Hate Communists"



Diva, Matron, Housewife, Shrew



The Sledgehammer



For Strategic Sheep Purposes



Coal and Iron



Miners Is Miners



The Triumvirate



No! No! No!


Conclusion: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters


Epilogue


Photograph Acknowledgments


Acknowledgments


A Guide to Further Reading


Index