Discours: (1968-1992) (Bibliotheque Classique de La Liberte)

by Margaret Thatcher, Michel Lemosse (Translator), Mathieu Laine (Preface)

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) est Premier ministre de 1979 a 1990, date de sa demission. Ses reformes radicales aux resultats spectaculaires lui valent trois victoires electorales successives et son intransigeante determination a les mener le surnom de Dame de fer .Un dirigeant hors norme capable de repenser en profondeur un modele pour le reformer avec constance et conviction. Une personnalite guidee en tout par le primat de la liberte et de la responsabilite individuelle, capable de restaurer un Etat regalien fort pour assurer la securite, et assumant avec fermete la rupture profonde avec les errements du passe. Aucune greve, aucun sondage, aucun calcul politicien ni aucun attentat ne la feront plier.Le credo thatcherien d'inspiration a la fois conservatrice et liberale oriente une action opiniatre et tout particulierement des combats transgressifs contre la toute-puissance syndicale, un travaillisme impregne de collectivisme et d'etatisme, ou encore contre l'Europe bureaucratique de Bruxelles.Comprendre les ressorts de son action determinante implique toutefois de se departir des caricatures et de s'autoriser a decouvrir qui Margaret Thatcher etait vraiment, ce qu'elle a objectivement accompli au service de son pays.Ses discours et conferences ici rassembles pour la premiere fois en francais, et magistralement introduits par Mathieu Laine, offrent une formidable opportunite de se faire une idee sincere de cette grande figure du XXe siecle, de cette femme qui a, selon le mot de David Cameron, litteralement sauve son pays .

560 pages, Paperback

Published October 7, 2016

About the author

British politician Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher from 1979 served; measures against inflation, a brief war in the Falkland Islands in 1982, and the passage of a poll tax marked her prime administration to 1990.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts) of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first and to date only woman to hold either post.

She went to read chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford. She was selected as Conservative candidate for Finchley in 1958 and took her seat in the House of Commons in the following year of 1959. Upon the election of Edward Heath in 1970, people appointed Thatcher as secretary of state for education and science. In 1974, she backed Sir Keith Joseph for the Conservative party leader, but he fell short and afterward dropped out the race. Thatcher entered and led the Conservative party in 1975. She defiantly opposed the Soviet Union, and her tough-talking rhetoric gained her the nickname the "iron lady." As the Conservative party maintained leads, Thatcher went in the general election of 1979.

The longest tenure of Thatcher the longest since that of Lord Salisbury and was the longest continuous period in office since the tenure of Lord Liverpool in the early 19th century. This first woman led a major party in the United Kingdom and held any of the four great offices of state. After her resignation, she was ennobled as Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords. During her tenure, she needed sleep of just four hours in a night.