There is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters - Tapa blanda

"American Conservative" .,."[E]ntertaining... Berlinski often expresses herself with verve...Berlinski's account of the case for free markets is--as a primer for the non-economist--lucid and lively... She's colorful--thanks in part to some enjoyable inside track from Charles Powell--about Thatcher's relationships with Gorbachev and Reagan." "World Affairs" "Berlinski has crawled through the archives and interviewed many of the principals of the Thatcher era, and part of the story she tells is about the crawling and the interviewing. She begins with an intuition that Thatcher was a figure of lasting worldwide importance and, more narrowly, one who clearly saw the challenges of her day. She ends with conclusions to the same effect. She makes her journey from hunch to sober appraisal ours as well, leading us back through a fresh look at the issues and personalities as she asks the pertinent and the impertinent questions and challenges the assumptions of the players and their own conclusions about what happened and why." "Washington Times" "Fresh, original and extremely well-written" "National Review" "Brisk, engrossing, insightful, often charming... a splendid book." "Wall Street Journal" "A pleasure to read... As an interviewer, Ms. Berlinski is subtle and dogged." "Globe and Mail" "Claire Berlinski has written a much better book about her than one of those door-stop biographies that are now the destiny of almost every public figure.... The book is all the better for being a work of synthesis as well as analysis. Without being hagiography, it is about as powerful a defence of Thatcher's record as is likely ever to be written." "Human Events" "[an] excellent look back at Margaret Thatcher's significance" "The Scotsman" "Berlinski shows commitment and energy as an author... Her encounters with Neil Kinnock are tactical masterpieces, where she draws the Welsh windbag out and then deflates his woolly thinking with as much cool, perhaps cruel, precision as Thatcher herself did." Peter Schweizer, author of "Reagan's War" "Finally the Iron Lady gets her due. Claire Berlinski brilliantly lays out how Margaret Thatcher's strength and conviction changed the world. Without a Prime Minister Thatcher there might not have been a President Ronald Reagan. And Berlinski reminds us how the whole world would benefit from a new Thatcher today." General Brent Scowcroft, author of "America and the World" "Claire Berlinski's insight into Margaret Thatcher's character makes this book fascinating, and her intellectual seriousness and rigor make it compelling. It is a perfect marriage of author and subject: Berlinski's Thatcher is painfully real and human, yet simultaneously larger-than-life." Scoffery.com "Claire Berlinski has written one of the finest biographies of 2008. Superbly written. "There Is No Alternative" should be read by anyone wanting to understand geo-economics and party politics. A masterpiece."

A re-examination of the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher. The author draws her portrait from biographies, historical archives and conversations with people who knew Thatcher, presenting the Iron Lady's flaws and missteps as well as her triumphs.