- Published: 1 March 2012
- ISBN: 9781446493885
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Reagan and Thatcher
The Difficult Relationship
- Published: 1 March 2012
- ISBN: 9781446493885
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
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
Summer reading pick from THe Sunday Times
This is excellent revisionist history, giving another slant to the interaction of two political icons on the world stage.
Publishers Weekly