Reagan and Thatcher by Richard Aldous
An iconic friendship, an uneasy alliancea revisionist account of the couple who ended the Cold War.
Starred reviewThis is excellent revisionist history, giving another slant to the interaction of two political icons on the world stage. -- Publishers Weekly
An interesting revisionist history, Aldous' study should attract the foreign policy audience. -- Gilbert Taylor - Booklist
Vivid, fast-paced and immensely readable, Richard Aldous' new book challenges conventional wisdom and prods us to rethink the 1980s. -- Prof. David Reynolds (Cambridge), author of America, Empire of Liberty
An important study, based on a wealth of recently-released documents, which puts the Thatcher-Reagan friendship in a wholy new (and more somber) light. It should be essential reading for anyone who cares about the history, the health and the future of the Anglo-American 'special relationship'. -- David Cannadine, author of The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Mellon: An American Life
I can't speak for President Reagan, but I've been both praised and pulverized by Margaret Thatcher and Richard Aldous seems to me to have captured the force of her personality. She did have an emotional understanding of Reagan and her of her that in its essence, in my judgement, was warmer than between Churchill and Roosevelt. But her fury was incandescent over the invasion of Grenada, a member of the Commonwealth, as was the wimpiness of the initial American reaction to the seizure of the Falkland Islands. This is a valuable look behind the looking glass of public-relations politics of the special relationship. -- Harold Evans, author of The American Century
An interesting revisionist history, Aldous' study should attract the foreign policy audience. -- Gilbert Taylor - Booklist
Vivid, fast-paced and immensely readable, Richard Aldous' new book challenges conventional wisdom and prods us to rethink the 1980s. -- Prof. David Reynolds (Cambridge), author of America, Empire of Liberty
An important study, based on a wealth of recently-released documents, which puts the Thatcher-Reagan friendship in a wholy new (and more somber) light. It should be essential reading for anyone who cares about the history, the health and the future of the Anglo-American 'special relationship'. -- David Cannadine, author of The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Mellon: An American Life
I can't speak for President Reagan, but I've been both praised and pulverized by Margaret Thatcher and Richard Aldous seems to me to have captured the force of her personality. She did have an emotional understanding of Reagan and her of her that in its essence, in my judgement, was warmer than between Churchill and Roosevelt. But her fury was incandescent over the invasion of Grenada, a member of the Commonwealth, as was the wimpiness of the initial American reaction to the seizure of the Falkland Islands. This is a valuable look behind the looking glass of public-relations politics of the special relationship. -- Harold Evans, author of The American Century
Richard Aldous is a professor of history at Bard College, where he holds the Eugene Meyer Chair. He is the author and editor of eleven books and is a contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. Aldous’s writing appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, and The American Interest, where he is a contributing editor. He lives in Red Hook, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393069006 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393069001 |
| Title | Reagan and Thatcher |
| Author | Richard Aldous |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2012-03-29 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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