 When Margaret Thatcher was Nine, she indignantly insisted that luck had played no part in winning a prize at a poetry reading. Ever since then, it has been a mixture of stubborn perseverance, brilliant maneuvering and plain hard work that got her to the top. But Mrs. Thatcher has been lucky in her career, too. Here is the fascinating story of her rise from daughter of a small-town grocer to Prime Minister. More than the personal Philosophy—the importance of self-reliance and enterprise, achievement, integrity and hard work—developed into a political agenda for Great Britain. In this In Focus Biography, Marietta Moskin carefully blends the life story of this important British Prime Minister—the first woman to hold that office, her philosophy of life and of government and her rise to power with a clear exposition of the British governmental system with explanations of how it differs from the American system. |
