Philip Hensher

Margaret Thatcher’s most surprising virtue: imagination

The key episode in Charles Moore second volume of Thatcher’s biography is her historic meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1984 — which eventually brought freedom to millions in Eastern Europe

issue 17 October 2015
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  • Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography Volume Two: Everything She Wants

    Charles Moore

    Allen Lane, pp. 821

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