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CAMPBELL, JOHN: : MARGARET THATCHER - Volume One: THE GROCER'S DAUGHTER

LONDON.CAPE,2000.

ISBN 0224040979.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, subject b/w portrait photographic illustrated upper panel with critics' reviews (of author's un-related title/ work) to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - appears an unread copy.Bright,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue eps.Thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,ix-xvpp+1- 511pp [paginated] includes illus list/ table,author acknowledgements,13 chapters, 16pp b/w contemporary,subject-related photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp176/7 and pp320/1 respectively, notes+references,sources and biblio,an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication and contents list/table. When Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative leadership in 1975,the public knew her only as an archetypal Home Counties Tory lady,more famous for her hats than for any outstanding talent: she had a rich businessman husband,sent her children to the most expensive private schools,owned houses in Kent and Chelsea and sat in Parliament for Finchley.As Education Secretary she had made the headlines by cutting the provision of free school milk; but she had voiced no criticism of the policies which led to Heath's defeat.No one for a moment imagined that she would be Heath's successor,far less go on to become one of the most dominant Prime Ministers of the century. Yet 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,the stern but saintly Alderman Roberts, who taught her the 'Victorian values' - thrift, temperance,self-reliance,patriotism and duty - which were the foundations of her subsequent career. It is all true,so far as it goes; yet it is not the whole truth.In this first volume of the first full-scale biography of Margaret Thatcher since her fall from power - and the first thoroughly to explore her early life - John Campbell,the prize-winning biographer of Edward Heath, re-examines the mythology and suggests a more complex reality behind the idealised picture accepted by Lady Thatcher's early biographers.Following her escape from Grantham to wartime Oxford,through her brief experience as a research chemist in Essex and her first political campaigns as a young Tory candidate in the safe Labour seat of Dartford in 1950 and 1951,to her marriage to Denis Thatcher,her struggles as a young mother in the 1950's to win a seat in Parliament and her first steps as a junior minister in the early 1960's,he portrays an ambitious and determined woman ruthlessly distancing herself from her roots - until the moment in 1975 when they suddenly became a political asset. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the heavier weight (nearly 1Kg unpackaged) and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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