- Hardcover: 700 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New edition edition (20 Oct 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002557746
- ISBN-13: 978-0002557740
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Following the worldwide success of her memoirs The Downing Street Years – the best selling British autobiography of recent years – and The Path to Power, here for the first time in a single volume are all the significant speeches of Margaret Thatcher’s career.
The speeches range from her maiden speech as the young MP for Finchley in 1959 to the headline-making Keith Joseph Memorial Address which she gave in January 1996.
In between are the landmarks – the speech in Brighton on the morning after the IRA bomb, the Bruges Speech, the titanic resignation speech in the Commons – and the previously unrecorded smaller speeches which are nevertheless intensely revealing of the character and beliefs of their author.
This volume forms a companion to the two volumes of Margaret Thatcher’s memoirs and will be an indispensable third volume for all who own the previous books. It will also, of course, be required reading for all students of twentieth-century history – and of great oratory of any kind.
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Following the world-wide success of her memoirs 'The Downing Street Years'and 'The Path to Power', here for the first time in a single volume are all the significant speeches of Margaret Thatcher's career, from her address to the Conservative Political Centre in Blackpool in 1968 to the headline making Nicholas Ridley Memorial Address which she delivered in November 1996.
In between are the landmarks – the speech in Brighton on the morning after the IRA bomb, the Bruges Speech, the titanic resignation speech in the Commons – and other speeches which are equally revealing of Lady Thatcher's character and beliefs.
This volume forms a companion to the two volumes of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs, and will be required reading for all students of twentieth century history – and of great oratory of any period.
Margaret Thatcher was leader of the Conservative Party for fifteen years and Prime Minister for eleven and a half.
Robin Harris, who edited this volume, worked in the 1980s as a government adviser, director of the Conservative Research Department and member of the Prime Minister's policy unit. He has continued to advise Lady Thatcher since she left office and contributes regularly to British, European, and American newspapers and periodicals.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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First published in 1997, gathers fifty-nine of the Iron Lady's speeches, from her years as leader of the opposition, to her years as prime minister, to the time she stepped down in 1990, and through 1996.
First published in 1997, gathers fifty-nine of the Iron Lady's speeches, from her years as leader of the opposition, to her years as prime minister, to the time she stepped down in 1990, and through 1996.
Edited by Robin Harris, her trusted aide and adviser, a member of the prime minister's Policy Unit, director of the the Conservative Research Department, and a regular contributor to British, European and American publications. Neither the brief introductions to each speech nor the footnotes are ever verbose--providing backgrounds which only help in setting out its context.
Divided into The Opposition Years, The First Parliament, The Second Parliament, The Third Parliament, and After Downing Street, it is a most impressive selection from among Lady Thatcher's vast collection of speeches hitherto--the ones marking the most dramatic events of her time (the party conferences in opposition, the brief statement as she entered 10 Downing Street, after the IRA bombing, amid the Falklands crisis, the Libya debate, the Gulf Crisis, and the speeches to The European Union and The House of Lords)--intensely revealing her character and unshakeable beliefs.
Whether in admiration of Margaret Thatcher, or from a desire to study The Tories, or Britain, or great speeches, this is one book deserving of a place in one's study.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Having read the Downing Street Years, this volume of Margaret Thatcher's speeches is a great collection of her official statements covering her election to Parliament to her Premiership and finally her dramatic downfall eleven and a half years later.
It is excellent as a researcher's guide to the politics of the 1980's, or just for the keen follower of Conservative politics. Covering a wide range of topics, it an exciting read and makes a companion volume to her memoirs. Most of her statements on the Argentine invasion were made in the Commons and so they make great reading in an historic setting. Always one for putting her views across in a forthright and eloquent manner this book takes the reader from the struggle of Opposition, to the defining of ideology with the many successes in between.
Harris wisely included the Bruges Speech made in 1988 which left a very strong impression on the Conservative Party and left no one in any doubt as to her position on Europe.
One of the reasons why Thatcher remained so popular with the party members must be her speeches at party conferences, these are all included to get an insight into the progress of events and policy. Her use of language, as shown by so many of her speeches reproduced in this volume, is first rate and compelled the electorate, party and MP's to keep her in the leadership of party and country for so long.
One of the great Parliamentary speakers of the age an excellent addition to any political bookshelf.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This is suitable to all listeners, regardless of age, political leaning, nationality or religion. The Lady talks incredibly well and is often entertaining. One thoroughly surprising aspect of these tapes is the amount of events that punctuated her time at number ten. There are great insights into the miners' strike, the Falkland Conflict, hyperinflation and a transition of power to John Major - a wholly different political animal. She's no Andrew Marr, but she really is a stunning political force who was quite simply without rival during her day - hence the power vacuum she left behind.
Educational, historically interesting and entertaining. Highly recommended.
Educational, historically interesting and entertaining. Highly recommended.
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