Margaret Thatcher: Volume One: The Grocer’s Daughter

Margaret Thatcher: Volume One: The Grocer’s Daughter

by JohnCampbell (Author)

Synopsis

When Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative leadership in 1975, the public knew her only as the archetypal Home Counties Tory Lady, more famous for her hats than for any outstanding talent.Yes almost overnight she reinvented herself.Journalists who set out to discover where she came from were amazed to find that she had grown up above a grocer's shop in Grantham.Within weeks of her becoming Tory leader an entirely new image was in place, based around the now famous corner shop beside the Great North Road; the strict Methodist upbringing; and her father, who taught her the 'Victorian values' which were the foundations of her subsequent career.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 528
Edition: Pbk edition.
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 03 May 2001

ISBN 10: 0712674187
ISBN 13: 9780712674188
Book Overview: A winner.Whatever your views on the grocer's daughter, I defy you not to enjoy it.' Daily Mail

Media Reviews
The best book yet written about Lady Thatcher. - Daily Telegraph
A fascinating account. Campbell's research is as exhaustive as it is meticulous. - Observer
Thorough, scholarly and fair-minded. - Independent on Sunday
A searching and beautifully written volume. - Independent
An exciting narrative...A triumph. - Spectator
Author Bio
John Campbell is the author of biographies of Lloyd George (1977), F. E. Smith (1983), Roy Jenkins (1983), Aneurin Bevan (1986), Edward Heath (1994), for which he won the NCR Award, Margaret Thatcher (published in two volumes in 2000 and 2003) and If Love Were All... (2006), the story of the relationship between Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson.