Margaret Thatcher signed a contract for an authorized biography more than 16 years ago. For reasons that will soon become clear, she granted writer Charles Moore an exclusive series of interviews and ...

Nearly every family has had an iron lady, a strong, determined woman — usually a mother, grandmother or aunt — who comes to the fore in hard times and saves the family farm, the family business or ...

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Elaine Showalter is a professor emerita of English at Princeton University. When the second volume of Charles Moore’s monumental biography of Margaret Thatcher came out in 2015, she had two ...

For biographer Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher belies the Socratic axiom that the unexamined life is not worth living and contradicts Francis Bacon’s reflection that great power comes only to she who ...

“Yes, I was daunted, but not because of the admirers or detractors — that was an added attraction because it was part of the interest of the subject — I was simply daunted by the scale of the task,” ...

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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to hold the position, left office exactly 30 years ago Saturday. Actress Gillian Anderson is earning stellar reviews for her portrayal of ...

The first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, covering her life up to Britain’s victory in the Falklands, is out, just weeks after her death. It takes its place among ...

The first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, covering her life up to Britain's victory in the Falklands, is out, just weeks after her death. It takes its place among ...