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There Is No Alternative

There Is No Alternative

by Claire Berlinski (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

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Synopsis

A re-examination of the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher. The author draws her portrait from biographies, historical archives and conversations with people who knew Thatcher, presenting the Iron Lady's flaws and missteps as well as her triumphs.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 09 Sep 2010
ISBN 10: 0465020275
ISBN 13: 9780465020270

Media Reviews
Scoffery.com
Claire Berlinski has written one of the finest biographies of 2008. Superbly written. There Is No Alternative should be read by anyone wanting to understand geo-economics and party politics. A masterpiece.
General Brent Scowcroft, author of America and the World
Claire Berlinski's insight into Margaret Thatcher's character makes this book fascinating, and her intellectual seriousness and rigor make it compelling. It is a perfect marriage of author and subject: Berlinski's Thatcher is painfully real and human, yet simultaneously larger-than-life.
Peter Schweizer, author of Reagan's War
Finally the Iron Lady gets her due. Claire Berlinski brilliantly lays out how Margaret Thatcher's strength and conviction changed the world. Without a Prime Minister Thatcher there might not have been a President Ronald Reagan. And Berlinski reminds us how the whole world would benefit from a new Thatcher today.

The Scotsman
Berlinski shows commitment and energy as an author... Her encounters with Neil Kinnock are tactical masterpieces, where she draws the Welsh windbag out and then deflates his woolly thinking with as much cool, perhaps cruel, precision as Thatcher herself did.

Washington Times
Fresh, original and extremely well-written


National Review
Brisk, engrossing, insightful, often charming... a splendid book.


Wall Street Journal
A pleasure to read... As an interviewer, Ms. Berlinski is subtle and dogged.


Globe and Mail
Claire Berlinski has written a much better book about her than one of those door-stop biographies that are now the destiny of almost every public figure.... The book is all the better for being a work of synthesis as well as analysis. Without being hagiography, it is about as powerful a defence of Thatcher's record as is likely ever to be written.


Human Events
[an] excellent look back at Margaret Thatcher's significance


World Affairs
Berlinski has crawled through the archives and interviewed many of the principals of the Thatcher era, and part of the story she tells is about the crawling and the interviewing. She begins with an intuition that Thatcher was a figure of lasting worldwide importance and, more narrowly, one who clearly saw the challenges of her day. She ends with conclusions to the same effect. She makes her journey from hunch to sober appraisal ours as well, leading us back through a fresh look at the issues and personalities as she asks the pertinent and the impertinent questions and challenges the assumptions of the players and their own conclusions about what happened and why.
American Conservative
.,. [E]ntertaining... Berlinski often expresses herself with verve...Berlinski's account of the case for free markets is--as a primer for the non-economist--lucid and lively... She's colorful--thanks in part to some enjoyable inside track from Charles Powell--about Thatcher's relationships with Gorbachev and Reagan.
Author Bio
Since receiving her Ph.D. in international relations from Oxford University, Claire Berlinski has lived and worked in Britain, Thailand, Laos, France and Turkey as a journalist and freelance consultant. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Sun, The Oxford International Review, Asia Times, The Weekly Standard, The National Review, Policy Review, Travelers' Tales, and elsewhere. She lives in Paris and Istanbul. www.berlinski.com