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Elaine Showalter, The Washington Post\nOne of the many achievements of Charles Moore sbiography of Thatcheris to recall into vivid life not only the British prime minister herself, but the political era to which she gave her name . Moore writes perceptively and sensitively about what it meant for Thatcher to smash that glass ceiling against which Hillary Clinton bumped so hard in 2008 including the many ways that politics is inescapably, not arbitrarily, different for women than for men .Magnificent. David Frum, The Atlantic\n[Moore] is surprisingly evenhanded .readers inclined to be as fair-minded as he will find much of interest in his account of her years in power. 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