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E.E.H. Green
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Pages: 254 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0340759771
Pub: Hodder Arnold
Pub date: 2006-01-27
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 230270
Reader Reviews:
The Iron Lady (3/6 people found this helpful)
I have read several books in the Reputations series . This is the most contemporary person so critiqued. I am surprised that the publishers in this volume fail to show that this volume is part of the series. But the author does tell us this is not a biography but an assessment of Maggie's political reputation. It is the author's own mainly favorable assessment and many well known comments, for and against by her contemporaries are omitted. Also omitted are aspects of her personal character, like her care for her constituents, her relationship with Dennis, her stance on moral issues, her resilience when personally attacked. The Brighton bomb is not mentioned, Bobby Sands barely alluded to. Green does not dwell on some things her opponents fasten on e.g. the Belgrano sinking.
Green deals with the big political themes and does it well, with chapters on Conservatism, economics, privatisation, trade unions, the electorate, the world and on Europe. The lady said she set out to destroy socialism. She did not slay this dragon but she certainly wounded it and changed the face of British politics. Well worth the read. New Labour may be her present monument . Consistency is seen as one of her virtues and weaknesses.
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