Description: Mrs Thatcher's Minister-Private Diaries of Alan ClarkVisible Words -- Study of Inscriptions by John Sparrow publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York First Edition Clark was Minister of Trade (1986-89) and Minister of State at Defense (1989-92) under Margaret Thatcher, then under John Major. His highly irreverent, heavily annotated insider's record of British political events, clashes and personalities will hold the greatest fascination for readers intimately familiar with the British scene, though for sheer malicious reading pleasure the book has few peers. Depicting politics as an endless round of meetings, drudgery, jockeying for power, dealings with incompetents and mediocritizes, Clark takes jabs at Thatcher ("somewhat blinkered"), Jeanne Kirkpatrick ("Anglophobe harridan"), Queen Elizabeth II ("Is she really rather dull and stupid?"). Amidst the high-level gossip and lecherous sexual comments, he also proffers opinions on serious matters such as military strategy in the Persian Gulf War and the Tory Party's declining fortunes.
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Origin: American
Subject: British Politics
Topic: Mrs. Thatcher
Format: Hardcover
Publication Year: 1994
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
