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Praise for Charles Moore’s
MARGARET THATCHER
“Moore has produced a biography so masterly—so packed with fascinating detail, with such a strong narrative drive, propelled by a central character who is at the same time both very bizarre and very conventional—that it comes as close as biography can come to being a work of art.…This book is a triumph of diligence.…But it is also a triumph of narrative art and human understanding, at its center a peculiar force of nature, never to be repeated.…One of the greatest political biographies ever written.”
—The Daily Mail (London)
“A notable landmark.…Meticulously researched and gracefully expounded.…It is not the only biography to appear so opportunely, but Moore writes with greater freedom, insight, and objectivity.…Both ideologically and personally, we now have a better understanding of the remarkable figure who became Britain’s first woman prime minister.”
— Financial Times
“A fine read.…Margaret Thatcher didn’t just live in interesting times. She made interesting times. Hers is a life well worth remembering.”
— The Washington Times
“A masterpiece of clear and intelligent writing.… Margaret Thatcher is already one of the great classic political biographies.”
—The Weekly Standard
“[Moore] is not afraid to address the contradictions and tease out the inconsistencies of his subject. Nor to be critical, sometimes deeply so. The result is to paint a much more multidimensional portrait of Thatcher than the caricature heroine adored by the right or the devil incarnate loathed by the left.…Immensely adds to our knowledge and understanding of the longest-reigning prime minister of the democratic age.”
— The Observer (London)
“Moore’s pace, his fascination, and his command of detail never slacken. This is a masterly piece of work.”
—The Times (London)
“Charles Moore is the perfect biographer: thorough, empathetic, inquiring, and eloquent. This is the portrayal of a life well lived, explored in a book well written.”
— Sunday Express (London)
“It’s an incredible level of access.…Presents a remarkable and richly detailed portrait.”
— The Boston Globe
“Charles Moore gives a unique insight into his iconic subject.…Startling.”
— The Telegraph (London)
“There are, of course, plenty of good books about Mrs. Thatcher. But Moore’s is comfortably the best: indeed, with its elegant prose, dry wit, prodigious research and careful judgments, it is one of the best political biographies I have ever read.”
—Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times (London)
“This is not just a good book—it’s a great one.…What gives this work the edge is not just Moore’s deep knowledge of and affection for his subject—it is the sheer amount of work he has done. The number of interviews he has conducted is simply staggering. Yet although huge, it quite dances along and because of his very pronounced sense of the absurd, often makes us laugh out loud.”
— London Evening Standard
Charles Moore
MARGARET THATCHER:
The Authorized BiographyCharles Moore was born in 1956 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history. He joined the staff of The Daily Telegraph in 1979, the year Margaret Thatcher came to power, and as a political columnist in the 1980s, he covered several years of Thatcher’s first and second governments. From 1984 to 1990 he was editor of The Spectator ; from 1992 to 1995, editor of The Sunday Telegraph ; and from 1995 to 2003, editor of The Daily Telegraph , for which he is still a regular columnist. He lives in Sussex.