Review: The Downing Street Years
Nutzerbericht - Jonathan - GoodreadsAdmired. 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. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Downing Street Years
Nutzerbericht - Haley Hill - GoodreadsNicked this book of my dad's bookshelf, and was glad I did. A fantastic insight into the life and mind of a formidable woman. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Downing Street Years
Nutzerbericht - Damselindistress - GoodreadsI 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. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Downing Street Years
Nutzerbericht - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsThe New York Times bestselling memoirs of Margaret Thatcher provide a riveting inside look at her role as a world leader and the events and personalities that shaped her years as Britain's prime minister. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Downing Street Years
Nutzerbericht - Lord Tedric - GoodreadsThis is all that I would want from such a book. Obviously it is written from a Conservative perspective, which clearly offends some of the other reviewers, (what did they expect?). What you get is a ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Downing Street Years
Nutzerbericht - Hengest Svensson - GoodreadsA very hard read. It is quite depressing to see how Thatcher was effectively ground down by the machine, though she doesn't admit that. She was actually a lot more socialist than you'd think. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Downing Street Years
Nutzerbericht - Jim - GoodreadsA wonderful read. A great woman, who loved language. It's interesting that she structures her career around the language in her public speeches. Appropriate for a successor to Churchill, I suppose ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Downing Street Years
Nutzerbericht - Toesnorth's mom - Goodreadsparts interesting, more than I cared to learn about Britain Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Downing Street Years
Nutzerbericht - Simon - GoodreadsIt's a doorstop of a book, and vast sections of it are excruciating unless you have a professional knowledge of the British government, and even then . . . but when she hits the Falklands War, and her ... Vollständige Rezension lesen