Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Margaret Thatcher de Charles Moore

Margaret Thatcher

Autor Charles Moore Editat de Daniel J Collings
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 sep 2027

Bazându-ne pe arhivele private și documentele guvernamentale declasificate, subliniem că acest al doilea volum al biografiei autorizate scrise de Charles Moore reprezintă standardul academic pentru analiza perioadei de apogeu a „Doamnei de Fier”. Lucrarea documentează intervalul crucial dintre 1983 și 1987, marcat de cea mai mare majoritate parlamentară din istoria electorală britanică și de transformări structurale profunde, precum privatizarea industriilor strategice și gestionarea grevei minerilor. Credem că valoarea acestui volum rezidă în accesul intim la procesul decizional; cititorul o observă pe Thatcher adnotând documente și navigând crize politice majore, de la afacerea Westland la relația tensionată cu Regina pe tema Commonwealth-ului. Spre deosebire de abordările anterioare ale autorului, care au inclus subiecte diverse precum misticismul în Sadhu Sundar Singh sau arta contemporană în 24-HOUR INTERVIEW, această biografie demonstrează o rigoare istorică excepțională și o capacitate de a sintetiza complexitatea politicii globale. Suntem de părere că portretul oferit este unul de o onestitate brutală, capturând atât geniul politic care a identificat în Mihail Gorbaciov un partener de dialog, cât și defectele care au început să îi erodeze autoritatea internă, precum introducerea taxei locale (poll tax). Ca alternativă la Thatcher de Graham Goodlad pentru cursurile de științe politice sau istorie contemporană, acest volum oferă avantajul unei perspective „din interior”, transformând datele brute din interviuri și corespondență într-o narațiune cu o imensa forță dramatică. În timp ce The Iron Lady de John Campbell oferă o sinteză excelentă a întregii cariere, lucrarea lui Moore excelează prin detaliul microscopic asupra anilor în care Marea Britanie a redevenit un jucător central pe scena mondială.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 16203 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 243
Paperback (5) de la 11123 lei
Hardback (6) de la 22721 lei

Carte nepublicată încă


Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Trimite

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781802065336
ISBN-10: 1802065334
Pagini: 960
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 48 mm
Greutate: 0.92 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor interesat de mecanismele puterii și de istoria politică a secolului XX. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care voința unui singur lider a modelat economia modernă și relațiile internaționale în timpul Războiului Rece. Este o resursă esențială pentru studenții la politologie, oferind detalii inedite despre guvernarea Thatcher pe care nu le veți găsi în manualele standard.

Despre autor

Charles Moore este un jurnalist și biograf britanic de renume, fost editor al publicațiilor „The Daily Telegraph”, „The Spectator” și „The Sunday Telegraph”. Desemnat de Margaret Thatcher ca biograf oficial, Moore a primit acces exclusiv la documentele sale personale și oficiale, condiția fiind ca lucrarea să fie publicată postum. Experiența sa vastă în jurnalismul politic și rigoarea cercetării l-au impus ca o autoritate în documentarea conservatorismului britanic, transformând biografia „Doamnei de Fier” în opera sa capitală, recunoscută la nivel internațional pentru echilibrul dintre detaliul intim și analiza politică macro.

Notă biografică

CHARLES MOORE was born in 1956 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history. He joined the staff of The Daily Telegraph in 1979, and as a political columnist in the 1980s covered several years of Mrs. Thatcher's first and second governments. He was editor of The Spectator from 1984 to 1990; editor of The Sunday Telegraph from 1992 to1995; and editor of The Daily Telegraph from 1995 to 2003, for which he is still a regular columnist. The first volume of his biography of Margaret Thatcher, published in 2013, has won multiple awards for distinguished achievement in biography and history.

Recenzii

Moore has finally completed one of the most thrilling, comprehensive, fair-minded and elegantly written biographies of modern times. It is full of complex argument, and a very large cast, but it is a joy to read.
Reviewers are supposed never to use the word "definitive" about a history book or biograph, but with Charles Moore's life of Margaret Thatcher, of which this is the triumphant last volume, one has no other option. ... an absolute masterpiece of the biographer's art.

Moore's Margaret Thatcher is one of the truly great biographies. Throughout the three volumes it has been comprehensive and subtle, breaking new ground while being surefooted on familiar terrain. He provides a portrait of Thatcher - her anxiousness and her certainty, her strength and her frailty - that is surprising and fresh while still convincing. This volume completes a historical masterpiece.
Not merely the authorized biography, Moore's is the definitive biography of Thatcher, and perhaps one of the definitive books about Britain in the late twentieth century.
This is a magnificent political biography which takes its place next to Robert Blake's Disraeli and Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson on the highest level. Outstanding... superb... extraordinarily compelling.
Praise for the first two volumes
As close as biography can come to being a work of art
One of the great biographical achievements of our times

Descriere scurtă

The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady

In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely authoritative biography, Britain's first woman prime minister changed the course of her country's history and that of the world, often by sheer force of will.

The book reveals as never before how she faced down the Miners' Strike, transformed relations with Europe, privatized the commanding heights of British industry and continued the reinvigoration of the British economy. It describes her role on the world stage with dramatic immediacy, identifying Mikhail Gorbachev as 'a man to do business with' before he became leader of the Soviet Union, and then persistently pushing him and Ronald Reagan, her great ideological soulmate, to order world affairs according to her vision. For the only time since Churchill, she ensured that Britain had a central place in dealings between the superpowers.

But even at her zenith she was beset by difficulties. The beloved Reagan two-timed her during the US invasion of Grenada. She lost the minister to whom she was personally closest to scandal and almost had to resign as a result of the Westland affair. She found herself isolated within her own government over Europe. She was at odds with the Queen over the Commonwealth and South Africa. She bullied senior colleagues and she set in motion the poll tax. Both these last would later return to wound her, fatally.

In all this, Charles Moore has had unprecedented access to all Mrs Thatcher's private and government papers. The participants in the events described have been so frank in interview that we feel we are eavesdropping on their conversations as they pass. We look over Mrs Thatcher's shoulder as she vigorously annotates documents, so seeing her views on many particular issues in detail, and we understand for the first time how closely she relied on a handful of trusted advisors to help shape her views and carry out her will. We see her as a public performer, an often anxious mother, a workaholic and the first woman in western democratic history who truly came to dominate her country in her time.

In the early hours of 12 October 1984, during the Conservative party conference in Brighton, the IRA attempted to assassinate her. She carried on within hours to give her leader's speech at the conference (and later went on to sign the Anglo-Irish agreement). One of her many left-wing critics, watching her that day, said 'I don't approve of her as Prime Minister, but by God she's a great tank commander.' This titanic figure, with all her capacities and all her flaws, storms from these pages as from no other book.