The Grooming of Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher:A Personal and Political Biography (1975) by Russell Lewis

The dear-departed's send-off last Wednesday, 17 April, is hereby further memorialised (but for a lot less than £10,000,000).

Her most important but least appreciated action was her abolition of currency exchange controls soon after attaining the premiership.

Here, her rising star (Esther/estrella) is catalogued in 1975 by one "Russell Lewis".

Book contains some intriguing old photographs.

Is that a planar occiput hiding below the bouffant?

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
1 A STAR IS BORN 1
2 GRANTHAM AND OXFORD 9
3 FROM DARTFORD TO FINCHLEY 17
4 CLASS OF '59 25
5 OPPOSITION FRONT BENCH 38
6 SHADOWING SHORT 52
7 STATUTORY WOMAN 67
8 MRS 9-1/2 PER CENT 84
9 BREAKTHROUGH ON THE BUDGET 96
10 EXIT MR HEATH 104
11 VICTORY IN THE SECOND ROUND 122
12 HONEYMOON PERIOD 135
13 FIRST WOMAN PRIME MINISTER 146
INDEX 161