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Los a#65533;os de Downing Street es un brillante retrato de los hechos y las personas de los primeros a#65533;os de la que fuera primera ministra brit#65533;nica Margaret Thatcher en el poder. La Dama de Hierro nos cuenta en primera persona, haciendo gala de una precisi#65533;n demoledora, c#65533;mo fueron los primeros momentos de su acceso al cargo --la mayor#65533;a de ellos cr#65533;ticos--, las tres victorias electorales, las guerra de las Malvinas, la huelga de los mineros, la bomba de Brighton, el asunto Westland, sus enfrentamientos con determinados ministros faltos del suficiente #65533;nimo o mal aconsejados, as#65533; como sus opiniones sobre las diferentes personas con quienes va tratando, tanto estadistas de talla internacional como miembros de su propio Gabinete, sobre las que vierte juicios de una franqueza absoluta. El recuerdo de aquellos a#65533;os configura la personalidad, y la trayectoria y los acontecimientos, los personajes y los sucesos que se describen dentro de una trama pol#65533;tica de tintes novelescos nos ofrecen la imagen perfecta de la hasta ahora #65533;nica primera ministra brit#65533;nica, dispuesta a cambiar Reino Unido y su papel en el gran teatro del mundo. Una obra magistral, llena de fuerza y convicci#65533;n, en la que Margaret Thatcher expone la base de sus creencias y el modo en el que supo convertirlas en hechos durante su gobierno. Su perfeccionismo, su pasi#65533;n por el cambio, su tenacidad y su asombrosa determinaci#65533;n son evidencias palpables en cada una de las p#65533;ginas de este libro. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Los a#65533;os de Downing Street is a brilliant portrait of events and people during the first years of Margaret Thatcher's career as British Prime Minister. A towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics, the woman who became known as the Iron Lady recounts her remarkable life in her own words. Her memoirs are a riveting first-hand portrait of the events and personalities of her eleven years in power. She recalls the triumphs and the critical moments of her premiership the Falklands War, the miners' strike, the Brighton bomb, the Westland Affair and her unprecedented three election victories. Her judgments of the men and women she encountered, whether world statesmen or Cabinet colleagues, are astonishingly frank. She is lavish with her praise; devastating with her criticism. The book reaches a gripping climax with an hour-by-hour description from inside 10 Downing Street of her dramatic final days in office. Margaret Thatcher's compelling account stands as a powerful testament to her influential legacy.… (más)
La aparición de las memorias de Margaret Thatcher ha sido uno de los acontecimientos editoriales más esperados de los últimos años. Ahora, este libro nos permite comprobar que la expectación estaba más que justificada. Los años de Downing Street es, por encima de todo, un brillante retrato de primera mano de los hechos y personas de los años de Margaret Thatcher en el poder.
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We knew we had won by the early hours of Friday May 4, but it was not until the afternoon that we gained the clear majority of seats we needed--44 as it eventually turned out.
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...in a market economy government does not--and cannot--know where jobs will come from: if it did know, all those interventionist policies for 'picking winners' and 'backing success' would not have picked losers and compounded failure.
We were seeking to secure greater financial stability, within which business and individuals could operate with confidence. We knew that we could do this only by controlling those things which government could control--namely the money supply and public borrowing. Most post-war economic planning, by contrast, sought to control such things as output and employment, which ultimately government could not control, through batteries of regulations on investment, pay and prices, that distorted the operation of the economy and threatened personal liberty.
...what we were fighting for...was not only the territory and the people of the Falklands, important though they were. We were defending our honour as a nation, and principles of fundamental importance to the whole world--above all, that aggressors should never succeed and that international law should prevail over the use of force.
...the generalized approval of the silent majority is no match for the chorus of disapproval from the organized minority.
...even governments acting on the best of motives are wise to respect legal forms. Above all, democracies have to show their superiority to totalitarian governments which know no law.
...in foreign affairs, the underlying realities of power are not transformed by meetings and understandings between heads of government. A country with a weak economy, an unstable social base or an ineffective administration cannot compensate for these--at least for long--with an ambitious diplomatic programme. That said, my experience as Prime Minister did convince me that a skilfully conducted foreign policy based in strength can magnify a country's influence and allow progress to be made in dealing with thorny problems around the world.
...the root cause of our contemporary social problems--to the extent that these did not reflect the timeless influence and bottomless resources of old-fashioned human wickedness--was that the state had been doing too much. A Conservative social policy had to recognize this. Society was made up of individuals and communities. If individuals were discouraged and communities disorientated by the state stepping in to take decisions which should properly be made by people, families and neighbourhoods then society's problems would grow not diminish.
If irresponsible behaviour does not involve penalty of some kind, irresponsibility will for a large number of people become the norm. More important still, the attitudes may be passed on to their children, setting them off in the wrong direction.
In politics there are no final victories.
Germany is...by its very nature a destabilizing rather than a stabilizing force in Europe. Only the military and political engagement of the United States in Europe and close relations between the other two strongest sovereign states in Europe--Britain and France--are sufficient to balance German power: and nothing of the sort would be possible within a European super-state.
...although I am a strong believer in international law, I did not like unnecessary resort to the UN, because it suggested that sovereign states lacked the moral authority to act on their own behalf.
Los a#65533;os de Downing Street es un brillante retrato de los hechos y las personas de los primeros a#65533;os de la que fuera primera ministra brit#65533;nica Margaret Thatcher en el poder. La Dama de Hierro nos cuenta en primera persona, haciendo gala de una precisi#65533;n demoledora, c#65533;mo fueron los primeros momentos de su acceso al cargo --la mayor#65533;a de ellos cr#65533;ticos--, las tres victorias electorales, las guerra de las Malvinas, la huelga de los mineros, la bomba de Brighton, el asunto Westland, sus enfrentamientos con determinados ministros faltos del suficiente #65533;nimo o mal aconsejados, as#65533; como sus opiniones sobre las diferentes personas con quienes va tratando, tanto estadistas de talla internacional como miembros de su propio Gabinete, sobre las que vierte juicios de una franqueza absoluta. El recuerdo de aquellos a#65533;os configura la personalidad, y la trayectoria y los acontecimientos, los personajes y los sucesos que se describen dentro de una trama pol#65533;tica de tintes novelescos nos ofrecen la imagen perfecta de la hasta ahora #65533;nica primera ministra brit#65533;nica, dispuesta a cambiar Reino Unido y su papel en el gran teatro del mundo. Una obra magistral, llena de fuerza y convicci#65533;n, en la que Margaret Thatcher expone la base de sus creencias y el modo en el que supo convertirlas en hechos durante su gobierno. Su perfeccionismo, su pasi#65533;n por el cambio, su tenacidad y su asombrosa determinaci#65533;n son evidencias palpables en cada una de las p#65533;ginas de este libro. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Los a#65533;os de Downing Street is a brilliant portrait of events and people during the first years of Margaret Thatcher's career as British Prime Minister. A towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics, the woman who became known as the Iron Lady recounts her remarkable life in her own words. Her memoirs are a riveting first-hand portrait of the events and personalities of her eleven years in power. She recalls the triumphs and the critical moments of her premiership the Falklands War, the miners' strike, the Brighton bomb, the Westland Affair and her unprecedented three election victories. Her judgments of the men and women she encountered, whether world statesmen or Cabinet colleagues, are astonishingly frank. She is lavish with her praise; devastating with her criticism. The book reaches a gripping climax with an hour-by-hour description from inside 10 Downing Street of her dramatic final days in office. Margaret Thatcher's compelling account stands as a powerful testament to her influential legacy.
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