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David Cannadine, Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 114 pp. $14.95. ISBN: 978-0198795001

Author: W. Morrisey

Published in: Society | Issue 3/2018

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Concluding this incisive biography of “the undisputed alpha female of her generation,” David Cannadine observes, “There are times when nations may need rough treatment. For good and for ill, Thatcher gave Britain plenty of it.” So she did, first transforming her Conservative Party, then using it as an instrument to excise her country’s slowly metastasizing post-imperial funk, diagnosed in her tart 1979 campaign slogan, “Labour Isn’t Working.” …

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Title: David Cannadine, Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 114 pp. $14.95. ISBN: 978-0198795001
Author: W. Morrisey
Publication date: 09-05-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Society / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-018-0255-9

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