A Journey With Margaret Thatcher: Foreign Policy Under the Iron Lady

by Robin Renwick

Overview

"A vivid and compelling first-hand account of Margaret Thatcher's diplomacy."—Henry Kissinger

Former British Ambassador to the United States Robin Renwick was Margaret Thatcher's foreign policy advisor during some of the most controversial events of her career. Centering on her relationship with Ronald Reagan and how they worked together to end the Cold War, Renwick's memoirs of that time are a fascinating window onto how Thatcher became one of the most globally prolific leaders of her generation, and the effect it had not just on her country but on the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849545334
Publisher:	Biteback Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	04/15/2014
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Robin Renwick: Lord Renwick of Clifton, is former British Ambassador to the United States. Now a crossbench peer in the British House of Lords, during a long career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office he became one of Margaret Thatcher’s most valued advisers on foreign policy.

Table of Contents

Prologue ix

Introduction xvii

I 'So clearly the best man among them' 1

II 'The odd woman out' 13

III 'A long-standing source of grief 27

IV 'That little ice-cold bunch of land down there' 41

V 'This is democracy and our islands' 65

VI 'One country, two systems' 81

VII 'Getting our money back' 93

VIII 'What British politician will ever really understand Northern Ireland?' 107

IX 'Time for some straight talking with our American friends' 123

X 'I felt as if there had been an earthquake under my feet' 149

XI 'A special relationship' 163

XII 'The whole world will be against you, led by me' 179

XIII 'A very powerful lady - someone I would rather have as an ally than an enemy' 195

XIV 'If you try to buck the market, the market will buck you' 211

XV 'An unambiguous failure' 225

XVI 'No time to go wobbly' 245

XVII 'A single currency is not the policy of this government' 255

XVIII 'The United States can be relied upon to do the right tiling in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives' 267

XIX 'The conveyor belt to federalism' 271

XX 'Signposts and weathervanes' 279

Acknowledgements 291

Notes 293

Index 299