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File metadata and controls Code. And boys they were , teen-agers too young for the exercise of informed free will , yet sent on missions to Vietnam that many would later consider immoral. To read Young is to discover that certain suspect analogies have informed the American perception of Thatcher as a conservative heroine.
Young makes a persuasive case for the view that Thatcher 's less-than-true-blue ideology was mirrored in her policies. This second volume of Ward 's lively and psychologically revealing biography begins with his honeymoon abroad in and concludes with his election as Governor of New York in The central riddle revealed here is why , as a woman in a man 's world , Margaret Thatcher evinces such an exclusionary attitude toward women.
The Pulitizer Prize-winning author 's second book in a projected four -volume work on the life of one of our most complex presidents. The author , a former investigative journalist , was able to elicit untapped recollections from Johnson 's old cronies. It took the author , recipient of the National Book Award for her biography of Samuel Beckett , seven years to answer these questions. A passionately told epic of China by Yale professor and historian Spence , author of eight other acclaimed works on China.
The author 's dilemma was where to begin in a recorded history that spans 4, years. There are two aspects of the Margaret Thatcher phenomenon -- neither of which is addressed in this splendid British biography -- that every thinking American needs to keep in mind when assessing the achievements of this remarkable woman. Major , at 47 the youngest of Britain 's 18 prime ministers in this century , is himself a model of such a grit-and-guts rise out of poverty.
