By 1979 Britain had lost its empire, become a power of the second rank, seen its living standards fall below those of Germany, France and Italy, and seemed adrift. In stepped the “Iron Lady.” Reviewing video clips that illustrate key moments in her career, Moore explains how Margaret Thatcher, with breathtaking self-possession, identified what was wrong in Great Britain and what needed to be done to correct it – epitomized by her breaking the strike of the National Union of Mineworkers. Moore delves into the intangible qualities of confidence and toughness that gave her the courage to stand side by side with Ronald Reagan in confronting the Soviets in the Cold War. Finally, in summarizing her career, he asserts that Margaret Thatcher “had the courage of her convictions, and her convictions were proved right by the course of history.”
One of Britain’s most distinguished journalists, Charles Moore is a former editor of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and of the Spectator magazine. Moore is also the authorized biographer of the Right Honorable Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, better known as Margaret Thatcher
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Charles Moore
One of Britain’s most distinguished journalists, Charles Moore is a former editor of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and of the Spectator magazine. Moore is also the authorized biographer of the Right Honorable Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, better known as Margaret Thatcher.
Peter Robinson
Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits the Hoover Institution's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, "Uncommon Knowledge."
Robinson is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP; and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA.
Margaret Thatcher, 1983.AP(born Oct. 13, 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, Eng.) British politician and prime minister (1979–90). She earned a degree from the University of Oxford, where she was one of the first woman presidents of the Oxford University Conservative Association, then worked as a research chemist. After her marriage to Denis Thatcher (1951), she read for the bar and specialized in tax law. She was elected to Parliament in 1959 and served as secretary of state for education and science (1970–74). As a member of the Conservative Party's newly energetic right wing, she succeeded Edward Heath as party leader in 1975. In 1979 she became Britain's first woman prime minister. She advocated individual initiative, confronted the labour unions, privatized national industries and utilities and attempted to privatize aspects of health care and education, pursued a strong monetarist policy, and endorsed a firm commitment to NATO. Her landslide victory in 1983 owed partly to her decisive leadership in the Falkland Islands War. A split in party ranks over European monetary and political integration led to her resignation in 1990, by which time she had become Britain's longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827.
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