Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher
Author: Nicholas Wapshott
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2007-11-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101217871

New 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.

Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship

Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship
Author: Richard Aldous
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2012-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393083152

An 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.

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan
Author: J. Cooper
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2012-10-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137283661

A 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.

Reagan and Thatcher

Reagan and Thatcher
Author: Geoffrey Smith
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A Diplomatic Meeting

A Diplomatic Meeting
Author: James Cooper
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 081315457X

Drawing 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.

The Human Factor

The Human Factor
Author: Archie Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2020
Genre: Cold War
ISBN: 0198748701

The 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

Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher

Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher
Author: Robin Harris
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250047153

"First published in Great Britain by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers"--T.p. verso

Dismantling the Welfare State?

Dismantling the Welfare State?
Author: Paul Pierson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1995-09-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316583538

This book offers a careful examination of the politics of social policy in an era of austerity and conservative governance. Focusing on the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Pierson provides a compelling explanation for the welfare state's durability and for the few occasions where each government was able to achieve significant cutbacks. The programmes of the modern welfare state - the 'policy legacies' of previous governments - generally proved resistant to reform. Hemmed in by the political supports that have developed around mature social programmes, conservative opponents of the welfare state were successful only when they were able to divide the supporters of social programmes, compensate those negatively affected, or hide what they were doing from potential critics. The book will appeal to those interested in the politics of neo-conservatism as well as those concerned about the development of the modern welfare state. It will attract readers in the fields of comparative politics, public policy, and political economy.

Reagan and Thatcher's Special Relationship

Reagan and Thatcher's Special Relationship
Author: Sally-Ann Treharne
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-06-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 074868607X

Drawing 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.

A Journey with Margaret Thatcher

A Journey with Margaret Thatcher
Author: Robin Renwick
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1849545758

In a remarkably candid new book, former high-ranking diplomat Robin Renwick provides a fascinating insight into Margaret Thatcher's performances on the world stage. He examines her successes, including the defeat of aggression in the Falklands, her contribution to the ending of the Cold War and her role in the Anglo-Irish agreement; her special relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev and what the Americans felt to be the excessive influence she exerted over Ronald Reagan, and attitudes towards F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela; and what she herself acknowledged as her spectacular failure in resisting German reunification. He describes at first hand her often turbulent relationships with other European leaders and her arguments with Cabinet colleagues about European monetary union (in which regard, he contends, her arguments have stood the test of time and are highly relevant to the crisis in the eurozone today). Finally, he tells of her bravura performance in the run-up to the Gulf War, her calls for intervention in Bosnia and the difficulties she created for her successor. While her faults were on the same scale as her virtues, Margaret Thatcher succeeded in her mission to restore Britain's standing and influence, in the process becoming a cult figure in many other parts of the world. Including material from the recently released War Cabinet files on the Falklands conflict, this book is an important exploration of an outstanding world leader.