I've read everything I can on Margaret Thatcher - Charles Moore's 2-volume biography, Hugo Young's 'One of Us', Jonathan Aitken's biog, John Sergeant's book, and so on. This is the best one I have read, and it's written by a non-Brit. It is the most lucid, questioning, witty and wise of all of them, and oddly the most balanced - the writer never fails to get a range of opinions, good or bad, and she never assumes you understand complicated things you don't - there are the most readable - even exciting - explanations of what the free market means, or what lay behind the miners' strike, or the Falklands War. As a result you finally feel you understand things other writers assumed (wrongly) that you always had. The only significant weakness in the book is a tendency to get bogged down in parallels between Julius Caesar and Thatcher's fall, which feels at times rather clunking.
But overall, it's extremely hard to quibble with this book. I felt I was jaded on the Thatcher-history-book front, and that there was nothing new to come across, but this is without doubt the one to start with. It should be required reading in schools and universities - 'read this and then we'll discuss Thatcher', it may be said. Bravo.
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