About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 96. Chapters: Margaret Thatcher, John A. Macdonald, Robertson Davies, T. S. Eliot, Robert Borden, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Henry A. Wallace, Levi P. Morton, Cab Calloway, Matthew Parker, Kevin Rudd, Vincent Massey, Queen Emma of Hawaii, Peter Costello, Kamehameha IV, Michael Nazir-Ali, Stanley Hauerwas, Benjamin Chew, Kenneth Tomlinson, John Cain, Alun Michael, Pandita Ramabai, Thomas Bavin, Margaret Anna Cusack, John Strachan, Philip Toynbee, Bess Truman, Levi T. Griffin, Samuel Gobat, Carolyn Tanner Irish, Thomas Penn, Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Henry Callaway, Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage, Andrew Young, Diogenes Allen, Thomas Davis, Bernard Mizeki, Kyebambe III of Toro, William Harris, Sister Frances Dominica Ritchie, Enmegahbowh, Jonathan Belcher, Marc Nikkel, Alexander Paterson, Gabriel Sharma, William E. Niles, Jacob Bailey, Ralph Slazenger, Habel of Kaipetta, Robert Corrigan. Excerpt: Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (nee Roberts; born 13 October 1925) is a former Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who served from 1979 to 1990. Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford before qualifying as a barrister. In the 1959 general election she became MP for Finchley. Edward Heath appointed Thatcher Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975 she was elected Leader of the Conservative Party, the first woman to head a major UK political party, and in 1979 she became the UK's first female Prime Minister. After entering, Thatcher was determined to reverse what she perceived as a precipitous national decline. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation, particularly of the financial sector, flexible labour markets, the sale or closure of state-owned companies, and the wit...
