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Days of iron.(There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters )(Book review)
'There Is No Alternative": Why Margaret Thatcher Matters, by Claire Berlinski (Basic, 386 pp., $27.95)
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EVEN now as a frail old lady, Margaret Hilda Thatcher, the Rt. Hon. the Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, elicits among intelligent people reactions that run from reverence to loathing. In this new book, Claire Berlinski asks, simply, How can this be? Only a child when Thatcher became prime minister, Berlinski sets out to learn the answer, reading up on British history, performing research in the Thatcher archives--presented with one of the former prime minister's handbags, Berlinski is astounded to find that it smells of perfume, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Days of iron.(There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters...