Downing Street Years - Rambling Readers

No cover — Margaret Thatcher: Downing Street Years (2011, HarperCollins Publishers)

928 pages

English language

Published Jan. 16, 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-202910-2

(1 review)

Margaret Thatcher is the towering figure of late 20th-century British politics. No other prime minister of modern times has sought to change Britain and its place in the world as radically as she did. This is the story of her remarkable life in her own words.

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3 stars

If you want to fully understand behind the scenes of politics in 1980s Britain, then you have to read this book, written by the woman who was PM for the whole decade. Unfortunately Thatcher is not the best writer, and at over 800 pages in a tiny font it is a slog to get through (her official biography by Charles Moore is far superior), and of course it is told from an unrepentant ‘I was right about everything’ point of view. Biased, boring and bloated, but essential nonetheless.