Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction) - Hardcover

Aldous, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410448452 ISBN 13: 9781410448453

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2012

Synopsis

Dispels the long-held belief that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had a special bond and a harmonious diplomatic relationship by revealing the high-stakes clashes the pair had over the Falkland Islands, Grenada, and nuclear weapons.

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Review:

An interesting revisionist history, Aldous study should attract the foreign policy audience.--Gilbert Taylor"

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

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. She did have an emotional understanding of Reagan and her of her that in its essence, in my judgement, was warmer than between Churchill and Roosevelt. But her fury was incandescent over the invasion of Grenada, a member of the Commonwealth, as was the wimpiness of the initial American reaction to the seizure of the Falkland Islands. This is a valuable look behind the looking glass of public-relations politics of the special relationship.--Harold Evans, author of The American Century"

Vivid, fast-paced and immensely readable, Richard Aldous' new book challenges conventional wisdom and prods us to rethink the 1980s.--Prof. David Reynolds (Cambridge), author of America, Empire of Liberty

An important study, based on a wealth of recently-released documents, which puts the Thatcher-Reagan friendship in a wholy new (and more somber) light. It should be essential reading for anyone who cares about the history, the health and the future of the Anglo-American 'special relationship'.--David Cannadine, author of The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Mellon: An American Life

An interesting revisionist history, Aldous' study should attract the foreign policy audience.--Gilbert Taylor

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. She did have an emotional understanding of Reagan and her of her that in its essence, in my judgement, was warmer than between Churchill and Roosevelt. But her fury was incandescent over the invasion of Grenada, a member of the Commonwealth, as was the wimpiness of the initial American reaction to the seizure of the Falkland Islands. This is a valuable look behind the looking glass of public-relations politics of the special relationship.--Harold Evans, author of The American Century

Book Description:

An iconic friendship, an uneasy alliance-a revisionist account of the couple that ended the cold war

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1410448452
• ISBN 13: 9781410448453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 603