Madam Prime Minister: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher (People in Focus) (Paperback)

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Margaret Thatcher was a strong-willed child and an iron-willed leader. Whatever she achieved was through hard work. This biography takes the reader through her youthful years into politics, marriage, law, children, and eventually to eleven years as Britain's prime minister.

About the Author

Libby Hughes is an author, editor, and playwright. Her biographies of international heroes and heroines include: Nelson Mandela; Norman Schwarzkof; Colin Powell; Benazier Bhutto; Christopher Reeve; and Tiger Woods. Hughes edited Ginger Rogers' autobiography. Her plays and musicals have won awards and been produced off off Broadway. She writes on Cape Cod with her Rhodesian Ridgebacks.

Product Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: IUniverse (November 2, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595146384
• ISBN-13: 978-0595146383
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #951,766 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I didn't realize the book was written for kids., July 16, 2001

By	Art Eastwood (Tigard, OR United States) - See all my reviews

Interesting book if you are 12 years old. It wasn't what I expected but it did contain some interesting information.

4 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Brief Review Over Margaret Thatcher, April 1, 2002

By	R. Davis (IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Madam Prime Minister: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher (A People in Focus Book) (Library Binding)

Margaret Thatcher was a very unique individual that stood out for her qualities as a leader. She was often called the iron-willed leader, which brought her confidence in her terms of service as Britain's Prime Minister. She often tried to point out that she would try to make as much of an impact on society as did other previous Prime Ministers such as, Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and Edward Heath. According to newspaper men in Britain, she did just that. During her years of service, inflation rose as well as unemployement but this was not part of her doing. The country of Britain had already slipped into a sort of depression and this just dragged Thatcher down in with it. But she did everything in her power to help drag Britain's economy back onto the positive side. One of her favorite quotes, which really displays her will to work for Britain when she was Prime Minister is this, "Let me give you my vision: a man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to have property, to have the state as a servant and not as a master; these are the British inheritance".