RaveThe Financial Times (UK)...magnificent ... Moore tells all this skilfully, and with sympathy for most of the protagonists. He could perhaps have kept his old journalistic instincts a little more under control in the footnotes, and left some Olympian judgments of people he doesn’t like to his newspaper columns: with his historian’s hat on he has given us all we need to make our own judgments. But these are second-order cavils ... [Moore] is right...to make clear the affection and respect which many who worked for Thatcher felt for this pigheaded, formidable, vulnerable, maddening, brave and patriotic woman, and how many of them really loved her even — perhaps especially — in her tragic final decline. She did not always choose her colleagues well; but she chose well when she appointed Moore to his gargantuan task.
