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There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters
( Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal d...)
Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline—ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the richest and most influential country in Europe, and Margaret Thatcher is the reason. The preternaturally determined Thatcher rose from nothing, seized control of Britain's Conservative party, and took a sledgehammer to the nation's postwar socialist consensus. She proved that socialism could be reversed, inspiring a global free-market revolution. Simultaneously exploiting every politically useful aspect of her femininity and defying every conventional expectation of women in power, Thatcher crushed her enemies with a calculated ruthlessness that stunned the British public and without doubt caused immense collateral damage. Ultimately, however, Claire Berlinski agrees with Thatcher: There was no alternative. Berlinski explains what Thatcher did, why it matters, and how she got away with it in this vivid and immensely readable portrait of one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465031218/?tag=2022091-20
Loose Lips: A Novel
(After sending her résumé to the CIA on a whim, New Yorker...)
After sending her résumé to the CIA on a whim, New Yorker Selena Keller is contacted by an Agency recruiter, who asks her how she would feel about convincing another human being to commit treason. Despite her checkered past, Selena passes the background investigation and a battery of bizarre aptitude tests. Living under cover as a government budget analyst, she begins her education in espionage at the Farm, the CIA’s covert facility. All CIA officers must survive a demanding training program, and it is there that Selena becomes romantically involved with Stan, a brilliant but darkly paranoid fellow student with presidential ambitions. What happens next is a fascinating inside portrait of the Agency—how spies are recruited, how they are trained, who they meet, where they go, and most important . . . what happens when they fall in love, and begin spying on one another.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812967097/?tag=2022091-20
Lion Eyes: A Novel
(Of Claire Berlinski’s marvelous debut novel, Loose Lips -...)
Of Claire Berlinski’s marvelous debut novel, Loose Lips - a perfect blend of satire, romance, and suspense featuring a young female CIA operative - book critic Frank Bascombe observed: “It’s more than a little obvious that protagonist Selena Keller is Claire Berlinski.” Despite her assertions to the contrary, Berlinski isn’t above poking fun at that notion. In Lion Eyes, a fictional Claire - the author of a novel about love among young CIA trainees - is unsuccessfully dodging a deadly Paris heat wave and her even deadlier ex-boyfriend. When she receives an e-mail from an Iranian admirer who wonders how to obtain a copy of Loose Lips in his native city of Esfahan, Claire wastes no time in replying. Her correspondence with the mysterious stranger, Arsalan - whose name means “the Lion” in Persian - quickly becomes personal, then intimate…then obsessive. As Claire heads to Istanbul to find relief from the heat, her electronic flirtation with Arsalan begins, inevitably, to consume her. The boundary between reality and imagination blurs and then disappears. The Lion, meanwhile, is nurturing his own powerful fantasies about the author. To satisfy their growing passion, they agree to meet, back in Paris, but Claire soon learns that someone is secretly intercepting their communications. Suddenly, Claire’s romantic dreams start to dissolve. As events take an unimagined, even dangerous turn, and as life begins menacingly to imitate art, Claire discovers that the Lion is not who she thinks he is.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501287761/?tag=2022091-20
The Thatcher Interviews: Sir John and Miranda Hoskyns: There is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters--Companion Material
(I have never met Margaret Thatcher. By the time I wrote m...)
I have never met Margaret Thatcher. By the time I wrote my book about her, she was already too ill to grant interviews. But I spent countless hours interviewing her colleagues, her friends, her enemies, and ordinary Britons who lived through her time in power. I recorded all of these interviews. In the end, I had to choose which comments were worthy of inclusion in my book about her. It was a difficult decision: So many people had said so many things that seemed to me worthy of note. In the end, much of great interest wound up on the cutting room floor, but only because something had to go. For those interested in Margaret Thatcher—or indeed, in the way biographers work—the transcripts of these interviews, unedited, may prove illuminating. Other historians may one day find them useful: Perhaps they will notice points that I failed to grasp. I thus reproduce the interviews in this series, every word of them, from the moment I switched the recorder on to the moment I switched it off. Sir John Hoskyns was the architect of the Thatcher Revolution, and Miranda Hoskyns, his wife, a witness to it all. I discuss them at length in There is No Alternative. Here is what we said to each other.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1468141430/?tag=2022091-20
Claire Berlinski
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Born and raised in California and other parts of the United States, including New York and Seattle, she read Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford where she earned a doctorate in International Relations. She has lived in Bangkok, where she worked for Asia Times. Laos, where she worked briefly for the United Nations Development Program.
And Paris, where she worked as a freelance journalist.
She now lives in Istanbul, where she is a senior fellow for Turkey at the American Foreign Policy Council and a Manhattan Institute scholar. Berlinski has written two spy novels, a work on Europe"s importance to American interests, and an admiring but critical biography of Margaret Thatcher.
Her journalism has been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post. She contributes to publications including the American, the American Interest, the American Review, Arabies Trends, Asia Times, Azure, the Browser, City A.M, City Journal, First Post, Gatestone International Policy Council, the Claremont Review of, the Financial Times, the Globe and Mail, the Guardian, Investor"s Business Daily, the Journal of International Security Affairs, the Los Angeles Times, Manager Magazine, the Middle East Journal of International Affairs, the National Review, Penthouse, Policy Review, Radio Free Europe, Standpoint, Tablet, the Tower, the National, the National Interest, the New York Sun, the New York Times, the Oxford International Review, the Spectator, Ricochet, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Washington Times Communities, The Weekly Standard, Travel & Leisure, Traveler’s Tales, and World Affairs Journal
The daughter of writer David Berlinski and the late Toby Saks, a cellist.
She had been living in Istanbul until the height of Gezi Park protests when she decided to move to Paris to be closer to her father after the death of her mother in 2013.
Works
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Lion Eyes: A Novel
(Of Claire Berlinski’s marvelous debut novel, Loose Lips -...)
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Loose Lips: A Novel
(After sending her résumé to the CIA on a whim, New Yorker...)
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There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters
( Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal d...)
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The Thatcher Interviews: Sir John and Miranda Hoskyns: There is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters--Companion Material
(I have never met Margaret Thatcher. By the time I wrote m...)
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Lion Eyes: A Novel
