The Autobiography of a Flea/Chapter 1
Born I was—but how, when, or where I cannot say; so I must leave the reader to accept the assertion " per se, " and believe it if he will. One thing is equally certain, the fact of my birth is not one atom less veracious than the reality of these memoirs, and if the intelligent student of, these pages wonders how it came to pass that one in my walk—or perhaps, I should have said jump—in life, became possessed of the learning, observation and power of commit-ting to memory the whole of the wonderful facts and disclosures I am about to relate. I can only remind him that there are intelligences, little suspected by the vulgar, and laws in nature, the very existence of which have not yet been detected by the advanced among the scientific world.
I have heard it somewhere remarked that my province was to get my living by blood sucking. I am not the lowest by any means of that universal fraternity, and if I sustain a precarious existence upon the bodies of those with whom I come in contact, my own experience proves that I do so in a marked and peculiar manner, with a warning of my employment which is seldom given by those in other grades of
Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography
A newly edited, single-volume commemorative edition of The Path to Power and The Downing Street Years; this is Margaret Thatcher in her own words.
Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. Now following her death in , this is her own account of her remarkable life.
Beginning with her upbringing in Grantham, she goes on to describe her entry into Parliament. Rising through the ranks of this man’s world, she led the Conservative Party to victory in , becoming Britain's first woman prime minister.
Offering a riveting firsthand version of the critical moments of her premiership – the Falklands War, the miners' strike, the Brighton bomb and her unprecedented three election victories, the book reaches a gripping climax with an hour-by-hour description of her dramatic final days in 10 Downing Street.
No other single book can offer this personal perspective on her formative years, her political convictions and the unique position she came to hold in public life; Margaret Thatcher’s frank and compelling autobiography stands as a powerful testament to her influential legacy.
Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography
Margaret Thatcher born October 13, , died on April 8, Margaret Thatcher was known as Britian's "Iron Lady." She was the the first woman ever to serve as Prime Minister of Great Britain; she served from to as leader of the Conservative Party, the longest-running prime minister of the 20th Century. During her time as prime minister, she focused on the characteristics of moral absolutism, nationalism, and the rights of the individual versus that of the state declaring, "There is no such thing as society" in Thatcher had a close working relationship with U.S. President Reagan, with whom she shared similar conservative views. Many saw her as the British counterpart to American "Reaganomics." Thatcher was born Margaret Hilda Roberts Oct. 13, in Grantham, England. She attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied chemistry. In , she practiced law as a tax attorney. In she was elected to Britain's House of Commons she was its youngest female member. In , when the Conservatives took power, she was made Britain's secretary of state for education and science. In , she was chosen to lead the Conservatives, and she became the prime minis
Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography
Even today, Margaret Thatcher endures as one of the main pillars of conservative thought and statesmanship in both Britain and the United States. Before her election, it was difficult even to conceive of the possibility that the steady left-ward march of history could be slowed, much less reversed or stopped. However, her election as Prime Minister of Britain in and subsequent re-elections, together with Ronald Reagan&#;s election as President in , demonstrated that conservative ideas could prevail in elections, and that conservative governments could work, on a variety of different issues and problems.
Any reminder of those discoveries, now almost forty years old, are singularly welcome today. The republication of Margaret Thatcher&#;s autobiography in a one-volume abridgment is thus timely and useful both for conservatively-minded readers, and for students of the history of the period.
The previous autobiographical works of Baroness Thatcher, The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power, suffered from a rather awkward division driven by the demands of marketing and publication. The first volume, Downing Street Years, covered
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