Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher : A Political Marriage

by Wapshott, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9781595230539
• ISBN10: 159523053X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-25
• Publisher: Sentinel

Summary

New details of the remarkable relationship between two leaders who teamed up to change history. It’s well known that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were close allies and kindred political spirits. During their eight overlapping years as U.S. president and UK prime minister, they stood united for free markets, low taxes, and a strong defense against communism. But just how close they really were will surprise you. Nicholas Wapshott finds that the Reagan-Thatcher relationship was much deeper than an alliance of mutual interests. Drawing on extensive interviews and hundreds of recently declassified private letters and telephone calls, he depicts a more complex, intimate, and occasionally combative relationship than has previously been revealed.

Author Biography

Nicholas Wapshott is a senior editor at The New York Sun and the former New York bureau chief of The Times of London. As political editor of The Observer, Wapshott covered Margaret Thatcher-'s final years in office.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. xi
Above the Shop	p. 1
The World of Work	p. 22
A Taste of Power	p. 46
The Road to the Top	p. 70
Success at the Polls	p. 101
The Honeymooners	p. 126
A Lovers' Tiff	p. 142
Outcast of the Islands	p. 160
Cold Warriors	p. 186
Strikebusters	p. 209
From Russia with Love	p. 226
The Victors	p. 251
The Merry Widow	p. 272
Epilogue	p. 289
Acknowledgments	p. 295
Notes	p. 297
Select Bibliography	p. 315
Index	p. 321
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