Libro Paradoxes of Power: Reflections on the Thatcher Interlude (Societas) De Alfred Sherman

portada Paradoxes of Power: Reflections on the Thatcher Interlude (Societas)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Societas

Autor

Alfred Sherman

Año

2007

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

183

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

1845400925

ISBN13

9781845400927

Categorías

Reino unido
Historia de europa

Paradoxes of Power: Reflections on the Thatcher Interlude (Societas)

Alfred Sherman (Autor) · Societas · Tapa Blanda

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Thumb through the index of almost any study of the Thatcher years ― biographical, scholarly or journalistic ― and you will come across the name of Sir Alfred Sherman. In her memoirs Lady Thatcher herself pays tribute to Sherman's 'brilliance’, the ‘force and clarity of his mind’, his ‘breadth of reading and his skills as a ruthless polemicist’. She credits him with a central role in her achievements, especially as Leader of the Opposition but also after she became Prime Minister. Born in 1919 in London’s East End, until 1948 Sherman was a Communist and fought in the Spanish Civil War. But he ended up an indefatigable free-market crusader. The book describes his early relationship with Sir Keith Joseph and his own role in the formation of the Centre for Policy Studies in 1974. Sherman examines the origins and development of ‘Thatcherism’, but concludes that the Conservative administrations of the 1980s were, for the most part, an ‘interlude’ and that the post-war consensus remains largely unscathed ― ‘we are back to where we started’.