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This volume studies Margaret Thatcher and her influence on British politics with the American reader in mind. E. Bruce Geelhoed interprets Thatcher's strengths and weaknesses as a political leader and analyzes the important trends in modern British politics. Drawing on the author's own experience as an expatriate eyewitness to the latter part of the Thatcher era, interviews with numerous British scholars and political observers, and a thorough examination of relevant published sources on the Thatcher years, this book provides an unique analysis of this extraordinary woman's leadership and the…mehr

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This volume studies Margaret Thatcher and her influence on British politics with the American reader in mind. E. Bruce Geelhoed interprets Thatcher's strengths and weaknesses as a political leader and analyzes the important trends in modern British politics. Drawing on the author's own experience as an expatriate eyewitness to the latter part of the Thatcher era, interviews with numerous British scholars and political observers, and a thorough examination of relevant published sources on the Thatcher years, this book provides an unique analysis of this extraordinary woman's leadership and the closing years of her era. Scholars and general readers in modern British history and politics will find this fascinating reading, both for its chronicle of the latter Thatcher years and its insightful analysis of that prime minister's strengths and weakness, accomplishments and failures.
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Autorenporträt
E. BRUCE GEELHOED is Associate Professor of History and Acting Director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University. In 1987 he was appointed Visiting Professor of American Civilization at Westminster College, Oxford. He is the author of several books, including Charles E. Wilson and Controversy at the Pentagon, 1953 to 1957 (1979) and, with M.A. Gates, The Dragon and the Snake: An American Account of the Turmoil in China, 1976-1977 (1986).