Margaret Thatcher Knihy

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

Bývalá britská premiérka se ve své knize Umění vládnout (Statecraft, 2002) věnuje geopolitice a mezinárodní strategii a má ambici podat praktický návod k patřičné zahraniční politice pro nejbližší budoucnost. Její práce začíná reflexí konce studené války a připomínkou jejích nejvýraznějších osobností, především Ronalda Reagana. Na geopolitické šachovnici se pak Thatcherová rozmáchne se vskutku širokým záběrem: pojednává o velmocích (Americe a Rusku), o asijských mocnostech (především Číně a Indii) a posléze se věnuje aktuálním otázkám terorismu, gangsterských režimů, lidských práv a jejich zneužívání. V Evropě se nejprve vrací k balkánskému konfliktu, ale především se vyjadřuje k otázce evropské integrace, v níž kontroverzně navrhuje postupné vystoupení Spojeného království z Evropské unie. V závěrečné kapitole se věnuje demokratickému kapitalismu a jeho morálním předpokladům.

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.

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.

This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers.

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.

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.