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Author: Sally-Ann Treharne
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-06-03
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 074868607X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on recently declassified documents and elite interviews with key protagonists that reveal candid recollections, Sally-Ann Treharne highlights the pivotal moments in Reagan and Thatcher's shared history from a new vantage point.
Author: Nicholas Wapshott
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-11-08
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1101217871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew details of the remarkable relationship between two leaders who teamed up to change history. It?s well known that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were close allies and kindred political spirits. During their eight overlapping years as U.S. president and UK prime minister, they stood united for free markets, low taxes, and a strong defense against communism. But just how close they really were will surprise you. Nicholas Wapshott finds that the Reagan-Thatcher relationship was much deeper than an alliance of mutual interests. Drawing on extensive interviews and hundreds of recently declassified private letters and telephone calls, he depicts a more complex, intimate, and occasionally combative relationship than has previously been revealed.
Author: Richard Aldous
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-03-19
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0393083152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn iconic friendship, an uneasy alliance—a revisionist account of the couple who ended the Cold War. For decades historians have perpetuated the myth of a "Churchillian" relationship between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, citing their longtime alliance as an example of the "special" bond between the United States and Britain. But, as Richard Aldous argues in this penetrating dual biography, Reagan and Thatcher clashed repeatedly—over the Falklands war, Grenada, and the SDI and nuclear weapons—while carefully cultivating a harmonious image for the public and the press. With the stakes enormously high, these political titans struggled to work together to confront the greatest threat of their time: the USSR. Brilliantly reconstructing some of their most dramatic encounters, Aldous draws on recently declassified documents and extensive oral history to dismantle the popular conception of Reagan-Thatcher diplomacy. His startling conclusion—that the weakest link in the Atlantic Alliance of the 1980s was the association between the two principal actors—will mark an important contribution to our understanding of the twentieth century.
Author: J. Cooper
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-10-10
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1137283661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new exploration of the relationship between the Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan administrations in domestic policy. Using recently released documentary material and extensive research interviews, James Cooper demonstrates how specific policy transfer between these 'political soul mates' was more limited than is typically assumed.
Author: James Cooper
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2022-02-22
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 081315457X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on a host of recently declassified documents from the Reagan-Thatcher years, A Diplomatic Meeting: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Art of Summitry provides an innovative framework for understanding the development and nature of the special relationship between British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and American president Ronald Reagan, who were known as "political soulmates." James Cooper boldly challenges the popular conflation of the leaders' platforms, and proposes that Reagan and Thatcher's summitry highlighted unique features of domestic policy in their respective countries. Summits, therefore, were a significant opportunity for the two world leaders to further their own domestic agendas. Cooper uses the relationship between Reagan and Thatcher to demonstrate that summitry politics transcended any distinction between foreign policy and domestic politics—a major objective of Reagan and Thatcher as they sought to consolidate power and implement their domestic economic programs in a parallel quest to reverse notions of their countries' "decline." This unique and significant study about the making of the Reagan-Thatcher relationship uses their key meetings as an avenue to explore the fluidity between the domestic and international spheres, a perspective that is underappreciated in existing interpretations of the leaders' relationship and Anglo-American relations and, more broadly, in the field of international affairs.
Author: Geoffrey Smith
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Archie Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0198748701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Human Factor tells the dramatic story about the part played by political leaders - particularly the three very different personalities of Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher - in ending the standoff that threatened the future of all humanity
Author: Andrew Adonis
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780719036699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddresses the question of whether there was a distinctive Anglo-American Conservative revolution under Reagan and Thatcher, and examines the political elites, political ideas and policy communities animating the Anglo-American right wing during the 1980s.
Author: Margaret Thatcher
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2017-06-29
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 000826404X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLady Thatcher, a unique figure in global politics, shares her views about the dangers and opportunities of the new millennium.
Author: B. J. C McKercher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-06-07
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1351776312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritain, America and the Special Relationship since 1941 examines the Anglo-American strategic and military relationship that developed during the Second World War and continued until recent years. Forged on a common ground of social, cultural, and ideological values as well as political expediency, this partnership formed the basis of the western alliance throughout the Cold War, playing an essential part in bringing stability to the post-1945 international order. Clearly written and chronologically organized, the book begins by discussing the origins of the ‘Special Relationship’ and its progression from uneasy coexistence in the eighteenth century to collaboration at the start of the Second World War. McKercher explores the continued evolution of this partnership during the conflicts that followed, such as the Suez Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the Falklands War. The book concludes by looking at the developments in British and American politics during the past two decades and analysing the changing dynamics of this alliance over the course of its existence. Illustrated with maps and photographs and supplemented by a chronology of events and list of key figures, this is an essential introductory resource for students of the political history and foreign policies of Britain and the United States in the twentieth century.
