Penguin Speakers Bureau

Biography

Nicholas Wapshott is the former New York bureau chief of The Times of London. Previously, he was editor of the Saturday Times of London, and founding editor of The Times Magazine. As political editor of The Observer, Wapshott covered Margaret Thatcher’s final years in office. In 1983, he wrote one of Margaret Thatcher’s first biographies. He is a regular broadcaster on MSNBC, PBS, and FOX News. He and his wife, Louise Nicholson, live in New York City with their two sons.

Speaking Topics

• Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage

  How, despite being divided by an ocean and a generation, a shared worldview led to an intimate friendship and a golden age of conservatism.

• Reagan’s Conservatism

  Why Reagan’s conservative ideas continue to dominate the American political scene, and why even Democrats like Barack Obama cite Reagan’s revolution as an example they would like to emulate.

• The Life and Death of Princess Diana

  From schoolgirl to queen in waiting, from glamorous icon to heartbreak and tragedy, why a modern fairytale went so terribly wrong.

• George W. Bush and Tony Blair

  How a buddy-buddy alliance led to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

• The Anglosphere

  The great post Cold War division is between those countries that are truly democratic and those that are not. What binds these nations together? A common cultural root to the foundation of the rule of law which emerged in medieval England and has persisted without interruption since then. But how can these nations with a common democratic heritage work together more effectively?

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