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The Lady's Testament.('Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World')

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Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, by Margaret Thatcher (HarperCollins, 486 pp., $34.95)

Margaret Thatcher belongs to that exceedingly small group of political figures whose influence has clearly improved the world, or at least prevented (or delayed) it from becoming worse. Francis Fukuyama's famous "end of history" thesis may be open to debate, but it could not be postulated at all, not even as a flight of academic fancy, if not for Lady Thatcher. Without her presence (along with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II) on the world stage during the crucial decade from 1979 to 1989, the proposition that global capitalism and, as its concomitant, liberal ...

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