Charles Moore.
CHARLES MOORE
MARGARET THATCHER BIOGRAPHY: VOL.2 EVERYTHING SHE WANTS (2013)
In the second volume of his authorised biography of Bfitish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925 - 2013) Charles Moore describes how she defied and broke the miners’ strike, changed the UK relationship with Europe, and engaged with the Russian leader Mikhai Gorbachev. In these ways she rode high. But in other ways she had to weather storms: the Westland helicopters affair, the poll tax, and clashes with the Queen over South Africa and the Commonwealth.
The Sunday Times wrote of the book: ‘The second volume is if anything even better than the first, a model of close research, fluent prose and impeccable judgement. Yet the real measure of his achievement is that amid all the summits and meetings, the policy papers and parliamentary duels, he never loses sight of the woman at the centre of it all. Almost every page of Moore's book throws up an unexpected insight or nugget.’
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Charles Moore (born 1956) was educated at Eton College and Trinity College Cambridge. His first job in jouralism was at the Daily Telegraph, which he joined at the age of 22. Within two years he was writing leaders. He went on to edit the Spectator, the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph. He was chosen by Margaret Thatcher to write her authorised biography, on which she gave him a free hand.
