Margaret Thatcher: a Life and Legacy
by David Cannadine, OUP, £10.99
For those who haven’t the time to read Charles Moore’s official biography of Margaret Thatcher (two volumes published and a third in the pipeline), this book has much to recommend it. It is short, judicious and lucid, neither leaning too heavily on the side of Thatcher’s admirers nor her critics, yet still conveying a sympathetic personal view.
David Cannadine, general editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and professor of history at Princeton University, wrote the original Oxford DNB entry on Thatcher and then, given the entry’s length and the importance of his subject, prepared it as a book.
