Moore, Charles

Biography of Margaret Thatcher focusing on her years as Prime Minister of Great Britain, beginning with her landslide election in 1983 up through the attempt made on her life by the IRA and beyond to the legacy she left behind in working with American President Ronald Reagan and the U.S.S.R.'s Mikhail Gorbachev.

This authorized first volume of Margaret Thatcher's biography covers her early life, rise to power, and her first years as prime minister of Britain. The author had unique access to all of Thatcher's private and governmental papers and extensively interviewed her and her family and friends.

Presents the scientific findings of Captain Charles Moore on the status of plastic in the world's oceans, his interest in which was inspired by his chance sailing in the patch of water known as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre--which at the time held more plastic than zooplankton--and is now named the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.