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- BOOKS, Page 73Iron Lady
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- MAGGIE
- by Chris Ogden
- Simon & Schuster; 384 pages; $22.95
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- 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.
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- 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.
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