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<text id=90TT1667>
<title>
June 25, 1990: Iron Lady
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BOOKS, Page 73
Iron Lady
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<body>
<qt>
<l>MAGGIE</l>
<l>by Chris Ogden</l>
<l>Simon & Schuster; 384 pages; $22.95</l>
</qt>
<p> She has been called "Reagan with brains," and she once
referred to herself, in a rare try at humor, as "Genghis Khan."
Such japes are a bit hard on the ex-President and the late
Mongol scourge. Margaret Thatcher, Britain's highly
conservative Prime Minister, is hard to humanize. Still, when
Britain needed to be put to bed without its supper after
decades of infantile class warfare, she did the job. Now
unemployment is high, and education and health care are poorer.
But Britain's economy and pride have perked up, and the middle
class is prospering.
</p>
<p> With scenes of home and hearth as well as policymaking,
Chris Ogden, a TIME correspondent and former London bureau
chief, provides an intimate portrait of a woman known for her
tough exterior. Extremes of hard work and self-reliance are her
sturdy British virtues; her dark side is an absence of
compassion for those who lack the will--and luck--to
succeed.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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