CHARLES MOORE

La casa: forma y diseño, publicado por primera vez en 1974, es un libro que intencionadamente se desmarca de las teorías globales de la arquitectura y de la herencia del Movimiento Moderno. Por el contrario, busca la complicidad del usuario (incluso del usuario-arquitecto) para recuperar determinados aspectos de la arquitectura tradicional. Si bien no es exactamente un muestrario de casas, al estilo de los que se publicaban en el siglo XIX para que la gente imitase una serie de modelos, este libro esta planteado explicitamente como un manual practico dirigido a un publico no necesariamente profesional, y lo que intenta es promover una cierta sensibilidad recuperando una cualidad que durante mucho tiempo se dejo de lado en el momento de proyectar: el buen gusto. El libro esta abundantemente ilustrado con fotografias en blanco y negro de las obras comentadas por los autores. Recuperar este libro hoy, cuando el post-modernismo en su vertiente mas trivial y propagandistica ha quedado atras, permitira al lector acceder de una manera menos condicionada a sus interesantes argumentos y valorar una serie de proyectos excepcionalmente integrados en la naturaleza y en el paisaje local. Encuadernacion: Rustica.

The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister.How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the woman who won the Cold War and three general elections in succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs?Charles Moore's full account, based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher herself, her papers and her closest associates, tells the story of her last period in office, her combative retirement and the controversy that surrounded her even in death. It includes the Fall of the Berlin Wall which she had fought for and the rise of the modern EU which she feared. It lays bare her growing quarrels with colleagues and reveals the truth about her political assassination.Moore's three-part biography of Britain's most important peacetime prime minister paints an intimate political and personal portrait of the victories and defeats, the iron will but surprising vulnerability of the woman who dominated in an age of male power. This is the full, enthralling story.

The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron LadyIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely authoritative biography, Britain's first woman prime minister changed the course of her country's history and that of the world, often by sheer force of will.The book reveals as never before how she faced down the Miners' Strike, transformed relations with Europe, privatized the commanding heights of British industry and continued the reinvigoration of the British economy. It describes her role on the world stage with dramatic immediacy, identifying Mikhail Gorbachev as 'a man to do business with' before he became leader of the Soviet Union, and then persistently pushing him and Ronald Reagan, her great ideological soulmate, to order world affairs according to her vision. For the only time since Churchill, she ensured that Britain had a central place in dealings between the superpowers.

Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential figures of the postwar era. Volume One of Moore's authorized biography gives unparalleled insight into her early life, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, and recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British politics as she was making her way, taking us up to the zenith of her power: victory in the Falklands.Based on unrestricted access to all Lady Thatcher's papers, unpublished interviews with her and all her major colleagues, this is the indispensable portrait of a towering figure of our times.