Reagan and Thatcher

This is excellent revisionist history, giving another slant to the interaction of two political icons on the world stage.

Publishers Weekly

Vivid, fast-paced and immensely readable, Richard Aldous's new book challenges conventional wisdom and prods us to rethink the 1980s

Professor David Reynolds

An important study, based on a wealth of recently-released documents, which puts the Thatcher-Reagan friendship in a wholy new (and more sombre) light. It should be essential reading for anyone who cares about the history, the health and the future of the Anglo-American 'special relationship'

Professor David Cannadine

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. This is a valuable look behind the looking glass of public-relations politics of the special relationship.

Harold Evans

Richard Aldous’s account of the most intriguing Anglo-American double act of them all provides many surprises . . . What Aldous manages to achieve is strong research with a vivid narrative style, bringing the most dramatic moments to life

John Kampfner, Observer

A well-research, well-written and revisionist double portrait

Andrew Roberts, Wall Street Journal

Intelligent, authoritative and extremely readable

Philip Ziegler, Spectator

This gripping account of their difficult relationship reads like a thriller.

Sunday Times

Aldous deserves nothing but credit for the masterly way in which he weaves accounts from published memoirs and recently declassified US material into a pacey, almost thriller-like account of the meetings and telephone calls between these two political giants. This is a work of history that can be read at one sitting — a page-turner more than a page-folder.

Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times

It wasn't all sweetness and light between Maggie and Ronnie, as this account of their difficult relationship shows

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