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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kwarteng, Kwasi (1975-....)
Titre(s) : Thatcher's trial [Texte imprimé] : six months that defined a leader / Kwasi Kwarteng
Publication : London : Bloomsbury, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-248 p.-[8] p. de pl.) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index
"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 levels not seen since the 1930s and public finances
foundered in their worst state since 1945. The 'no hope' budget delivered by Chancellor
Geoffrey Howe in March marked the beginning of a six-month period which witnessed
pressures in Northern Ireland, hunger strikes, urban riots and unprecedented unrest
within the Conservative Party. By the Cabinet reshuffle of 14 September, in which
mutinous grandees were removed, Thatcher had firmly reasserted her authority. This
extraordinary six-month period would come to define the Conservative Party's most
successful and divisive modern figure: to her detractors a harsh, uncaring and dogmatic
leader who made the country a more unequal, materialistic and brutal place; to her
supporters, the saviour of a Britain which was becoming an ungovernable socialist
state. The 1983 general election would prove a triumph. Kwasi Kwarteng here captures
this shopkeeper's daughter's unique leadership qualities -- from her pulpit style
and New Testament imagery to her emphasis on personal moral responsibility -- in some
of the most adverse conditions facing any statesman in modern peacetime to offer a
compelling study of arguably the most significant six months in British post-war history."--PRovided
by publisher
Sujet(s) : Thatcher, Margaret (1925-2013)
Politique et gouvernement -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1979-1997
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
941.085 8092 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Îles britanniques - 1980-1989 - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781408859179. - ISBN 1408859173. - ISBN 9781408859193 (erroné) (ePub) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46591602m
Notice n° :
FRBNF46591602
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.