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Downing Street Years

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HarperCollins, Jan 4, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 928 pages

This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers.

  

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User Review  - Jonathan - Goodreads

Admired. I believe that without her, our country wouldn't be what it is today- and I don't know where we'd be. It was Arthur Scargill that ruined the mining industry. She had an active and major part in ending the Cold War, and reversed our post-war downturn. Goodbye MT. Read full review

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User Review  - Damselindistress - Goodreads

I loved her dearly but she turned into a rather heartless beast in the end. Comparing her early career with what came later one wonders how two such women could live in the same body. Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
Chronology
The Cabinet and other important offices
List of Abbreviations
Index
Acknowledgements
Copyright
About the Publisher
Copyright

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Born in 1925, Margaret Thatcher rose to become the first woman to lead a major Western democracy. She won three successive general elections and served as prime minister for more than eleven years, from 1979 to 1990, a record unmatched in the twentieth century.

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