The Iron Lady

A number-one bestseller upon publication in England, political journalist Young's biography offers a popular, thorough, and astute account of an extraordinary and controversial career. He follows Thatcher from her political formation as the daughter of a small-town alderman, through her apprenticeship under Harold Macmillan and her participation in the government of Edward Heath, to her election as prime minister in 1979, her systematic destruction of the "old" Conservatism, and her emergence as the senior statesman of the Western world.