662. Britain in the 70s: The Rise of Thatcher (Part 1)

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Mentioned as one of the books Thatcher read in the 1970s as leader of the opposition, along with Dostoevsky and other authors.

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Mentioned as one of the books Thatcher read in the 1970s as leader of the opposition, cited as evidence against claims that she was a philistine.

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Thatcher famously read it all the way through and then read it again to try and work out the plot, approaching it like a scientist analyzing its composition.

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Described as the most famous biography of Margaret Thatcher, containing letters she wrote to her sister about wanting glamorous new shoes.

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Mentioned as one of several good biographies of Thatcher, noted for a passage discussing the different roles she would play including Nurse Thatcher and Nanny Thatcher.