Margaret Thatcher Libri

Lady Thatcher, a unique figure in global politics, shares her views about the dangers and opportunities of the new millennium. In her own words: I wanted to write one more book and I wanted it to be about the future. In this age of spin-doctors and sound bites, the ever present danger is that leaders will follow fashion and not their instincts and beliefs. That was not how the West won the Cold War, not how we created the basis for today's freedom and prosperity. If we wish to make our achievements secure for our children and grandchildren, the West must stay vigilant and strong. In this book it will be my purpose to show that it can - and must - be done.

Margaret Thatcher, arguable the most significant figure of the late-twentieth-century British politics, died on 8 April 2013. Combining and abridging her memoirs 'The Path to Power' and 'The Downing Street Years', this definitive account of Margaret Thatcher's life is published as a one volume commemorative edition.

First published in her pioneering treatise Statecraft, the opinions and projections of the former Prime Minister on Europe remain potent and resoundingly prophetic. Margaret Thatcher foresaw the European Union as a swelling superstate, gradually eroding Britain's freedom. Irreparable and doomed, European integration did not allow for the birthright of nationhood. It was the most recent incarnation of an idea that has been tried many times before, and the outcomes were far from happy. During my lifetime, she says, most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it.

Britain's first female Prime Minister - and the only British Prime Minister of the 20th century to win three consecutive general elections - shares her story as only she can in this engaging memoir.

The extraordinary account of Margaret Thatcher's life up to her dramatic election as the first woman Prime Minister of England in 1979.

The ninth biggest country in the world, Kazakhstan stretches from Europe to China, supplying from vast resources its petroleum and gas by pipeline to Western and world markets via the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and simultaneously by direct pipeline to China. Economically, politically and socially Kazakhstan is increasingly seen as an exemplar of prosperity, sound management, national - albeit ethnically diverse - cohesion, and international sagacity befitting its pivotal geo-political position.Born into a family of transhumant herders of eastern Kazakhstan in July 1940, Nursultan Nazarbayev is now the President of Kazakhstan.

"The appearance of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs has been one of the most eagerly awaited publishing events in many years. As this book now shows, rarely has such a sense of anticipation been so amply justified." "The Downing Street Years is, first and foremost, a brilliant first-hand portrayal of the events and personalities of her years in power. She gives riveting accounts of the great and critical moments of her premiership - the three election victories, the Falklands War, the Miners' Strike, the Brighton Bomb, the Westland Affair, her battles abroad with foreign federalists and at home with faint-hearted or misguided ministers. Her judgements of the men and women she has encountered, whether world statesmen or Cabinet colleagues, are completely, sometimes brutally, frank. She is lavish with praise where it is due; devastating in her criticism when it is not. The book ends with an account of her last days which is as gripping as anything in thriller fiction." "But The Downing Street Years is as much an argument as it is a record or a series of character portraits. No prime minister of modern times has sought to change Britain and its place in the world as radically as she did. Her government, she says, was about the application of a philosophy, not the implementation of an administrative programme. She sets out here with forcefulness and conviction the reasons for her beliefs and how she sought to turn them into action."

Autobiografie lady Thatcherové je věnována jedenácti a půl letům její činnosti v úřadu ministerské předsedkyně Velké Británie

Bu bir deneme değil, eleştirel bir inceleme de değil. Yüreğimden kopanı karşılıklı paylaştığımız heyecanlı bir içtenlikle kâğıda döküyorum. Sana sesleniyorum, Fedor. Bir yazar hiçbir zaman kendine ait değildir: Sen, benim damarlarımda dolaşan kanda yaşıyorsun, sorduğun sorular sinir hücrelerime işlenmiş. Sen benim için, kendinden sonra gelenlere yapıtlarıyla yol gösteren bir usta olmakla kalmadan; bunun hep ötesindeydin; ciğerlerime çektiğim hava oldun. Ben, senin yarattığın kişilerden biriyim, Fedor. Kitaplarını yutarcasına okuyan o şaşkın çocuklardan biri olmakla başladım işe. Sana on üç-on dört yaşlarında Barcelona'da rastladım ve ilk bakışta tanıdım, çünkü doğduğumdan beri senin içinde yaşıyordum ben. Senin adını, Fedya, ilk romanımın, Çağımızın Çocuğu'nun ilk sayfasına yazdım. Beni senden daha iyi kim anlayabilirdi? Michel del Castillo, ustası Dostoyevski'ye Kardeşim Budala'da böyle sesleniyor. Ve roman, eleştirel deneme, yaşamöyküsü olmayan, ama hepsinden izler taşıyan bu kitabı bitirdiğimizde, aralarındaki diyaloğun sona ermediğini, `suçlarından' ve `cezalarından' birbirlerine sonsuza kadar fısıldayarak söz etmeyi sürdüreceklerini hissediyoruz. Aralarına girmiş biz okurlara da kitabı kapatıp usulca geri çekilmek düşüyor.