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Downing Street Years
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Margaret Thatcher (Read by)
This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign ...
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Disraeli
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Robert Blake
Originally published in 1966 by Eyre and Spottiswood a biography of the great Conservative leader and Prime Minister. Disraeli was an unusual man to be Prime Minister and was reknowned for his close relationship with Queen Victoria and his rivalry with Gladstone. In the LOST TREASURES series.
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Robert Peel: A Biography
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Douglas Hurd
Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our police force, which became a model for the world. He steered through the Bill which allowed Catholics to sit in Parliament. He reorganised the criminal justice system. He put Britain back on the gold standard; he invented the ...
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Winston Churchill: an intimate portrait
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Violet Bonham Carter
This superb account of the public and private life of the greatest Englishman of our century makes a rare firsthand contribution to the history of an epoch and to the understanding of a man. Violet Bonham Carter was Churchill's close personal friend for nearly sixty years. Her book focuses on the formative and crucial years from 1906 to 1916 that ...
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The turbulent years : my life in politics
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Kenneth Baker
Kenneth Baker, former Conservative Party Chairman, reveals Mrs Thatcher's strengths and weaknesses, and charts the mixture of accident, mistake, ambition, intrigue, slighted pride, misplaced optimism and faulty judgement which led to her decline. Drawing on the diaries he kept over 13 years, Baker gives blow-by-blow accounts of key meetings and ...
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Memoirs 1939-1993
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Brian Mulroney
Politics was always Brian Mulroney's real love. As an undergraduate in Nova Scotia he amazed his friends by getting Prime Minister Diefenbaker on the phone, and he rose fast in the Tory ranks in Quebec as a young Montreal lawyer. He tried for the leadership of the party in 1976, losing to Joe Clark, then returned to win a rematch in 1983. The next ...
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Baldwin: a biography
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Keith Middlemas, Anthony John Lane Barnes
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No Surrender: Reflections of a Happy Warrior in the Tory Crusade
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Hugh Segal
This is a good book ... full of good humor and much wisdom about Canada and the political process. -- Bob Rae, Maclean's ... this is a very good, at times terrific, memoir: engaging, insightful and informative. -- Quill & Quire (starred review) Hugh Segal is that rare political animal: a Progressive Conservative partisan who is liked and respected ...
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Politics of the Thatcher Revolution: An Interpretation of British Politics 1979-1990
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Geoffrey K Fry
The Thatcher Revolution of 1979-90 transformed British political life. By the 1970s, the Keynesian consensus established in the 1940s was malfunctioning, and the conventional wisdom was that it would either stagger on or it would be replaced by socialism imposed by the trade union power that had rendered the country ungovernable. The Governments ...
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Thatcher and Thatcherism
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Eric J Evans
Thatcherism produced dramatic changes in most aspects of public life, both in Britain and abroad. Thatcher and Thatcherism surveys the origins and impact of Thatcherism as a cultural construct and an economic creed. Centring on the career of Margaret Thatcher, the author argues that Thatcherism was a bold experiment in ideologically driven ...
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Democracy Challenged: How to End One-Party Rule in Canada
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Heward Grafftey
Will the Progressive Conservative Party become, once more, a viable national force - or will it wither on the vine and disappear forever from the national scene with negative results for Canada and Canadians? It is the author's contention that there is no use crying about one-party rule and blaming the Liberals. One-party rule has come about ...
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Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative
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Francis Elliott, James Hanning
The first major biography of the Conservative Party's dynamic new leader. David ('Dave') Cameron has recently emerged as the first Tory leader in years to come across as a man of the people, an ordinary bloke in a traditionally reviled political position. But, spin-doctoring aside, not a great deal is known about his background, his family life ...
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An appetite for power : a history of the Conservative Party since 1830
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John Ramsden
The complete history of the Conservative Party from 1714 to the present day. * John Ramsden is the author of three of the volumes in Longman's vast, specialised multi-volume history of the Conservative Party. He is a first rate professional historian. This is his first trade book. A new history of the Conservative Party is long overdue and ...
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Fighting the Good Fight: A History of the New York Conservation Party 1962-2002
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George Marlin
This is the story of New York's feisty Conservative Party, a story that is really the saga of America's tumultuous political maturity from the time of Rockefeller up to Rudy Guiliani.
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The Conservatives in Crisis: The Tories After 1997
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Mark Garnett (Editor), Philip Lynch (Editor)
This book should be of value to students of contemporary British politics.
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His Majesty's Loyal Opposition: The Unionist Party in Opposition 1905-1915
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David Dutton, University of Liverpool
Describes the workings of the Unionist Party as the major political party in opposition between 1905 and 1915, a period recognised as being of crucial importance in the development of the modern British political system.
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Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada
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William Johnson
William Johnson was the first to write a book about Stephen Harper, and he has become "the "authority on Harper. Who is this man? Everyone knows that he became leader of the Alliance Party and, against all odds, gathered in the old Conservative Party to create a force designed to win power. Yet what are his core beliefs? Where will he takes us ...
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The Tories : Conservatives and the nation state, 1922-1997
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Alan Clark
For the better part of this century the Conservatives have been the governing political party of Britain. During that period the country has fallen in stature by virtually every criterion of measurement which can be applied. Yet the primary objective of the Conservative Party, or so it claims and its supporters believe, is to advance and protect ...
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Young England
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John Morrow
The young England group is most often discussed in relation to the early career of Disraeli. In addition to their parliamentary notoriety these men were important figures in the literary and political culture of Victorian Britain. This reader contains a selection of their writings, including poetry, speeches, pamphlets and occasional pieces.
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Dirty Politics, Dirty Times: My Fight with Wapping and New Labour
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Michael A Ashcroft
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Peel and the Conservative Party, 1830-1850
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Paul Adelman
Sir Robert Peel dominated political life for more than two decades and has been described as the 'founder of modern conservatism.' This book analyzes the career of Sir Robert Peel in relation to the development of the Conservative Party in the early 19th century. It discusses Peel's conception of Conservatism, and his work as Prime Minister.
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Rescuing Canada's Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution
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Tasha Kheiriddin, Adam Daifallah, Mark Steyn (Foreword by)
This is a provocative and timely call to action for civic-minded Canadians yearning for a more competitive political system and better government. Canadians everywhere are asking: what's wrong with the Conservative Party? The Liberal Party of Canada has held power for 70 of the past 100 years - a feat unrivaled by any other political party in the ...
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Look Ma-- no hands : an affectionate look at our wonderful Tories
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Allan Fotheringham
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Margaret Thatcher : wife, mother, politician
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Penny Junor
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Price of Power: The Secret Funding of the Tory Party
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Colin Challen
The Conservative Party has ruled Britain for much of the 20th century, outspending its rivals yet hiding the origins of its income from prying eyes. "The Price of Power" reveals the history of Tory Party funding, from the turn of the century to the damaging political scandals of the 1990s.
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