- Published: 15 March 2013
- ISBN: 9780099534099
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $29.99
Reagan and Thatcher
The Difficult Relationship
- Published: 15 March 2013
- ISBN: 9780099534099
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $29.99
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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