Maggie - The First Lady
The woman behind the title
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2004
Summary
Who was Margaret Thatcher? Her influence on politics is well documented - not least by Lady Thatcher herself. What no one has attempted before this book by award-winning biographer Brenda Maddox, is to present the personal story of the woman who has been described as ‘the most significant Englishwoman since Elizabeth I’.
Brenda Maddox traces the life of the grocer’s daughter from Grantham who became the most successful Conservative Prime Minister of the twentieth century. Unprecedente…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340825464 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340825464 |
| Author: | Brenda Maddox |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Coronet Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2004 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 24mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Elegantly written…what makes Brenda Maddox’s biography so compelling is the interweaving of the personal and political. Perhaps the most rounded profile yet of this unique woman. - Birmingham Post
There are new insights…Maddox paints a vivid picture of the very different world of a provincial town in the 1930s. Equally vivid is the account of Thatcher’s first attempt to enter parliament at the 1950 general election. - Financial TimesThe story of Alderman Roberts’s daughter may hardly be new but Maddox tells it with pace and verve…(she) is good, too, on Thatcher’s Oxford career. This is a racily paced tale of what is essentially the private side of a public career. - Anthony Howard, The Sunday TimesA good read. Its descriptions of the affection between Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis and of the support he gave her are accurate and sympathetic. - Norman Tebbit, Evening StandardAbout The Author
Brenda Maddox
Brenda Maddox is an award-winning biographer whose work has been translated into ten languages. NORA: A BIOGRAPHY OF NORA JOYCE won the Los Angeles Times Biography Award, the Silver PEN Award, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and was shortlisted for the National Book Award. Her life of D.H. Lawrence won the Whitbread Biography Award and GEORGE’S GHOSTS, on the married life of W.B. Yeats, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
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