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Nicholas Wapshott
Author of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage
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.
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"Rupert Murdoch always felt like an outsider. Now he could become one."
The New Statesman
"Fed Up with Bernanke"
Reuters
Keynes and Hayek, the Great Debate (Part 1)
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Keynes and Hayek, the Great Debate (Part 2)
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Keynes and Hayek, the Great Debate (Part 3)
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Keynes and Hayek, the Great Debate (Part 4)
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"Was Keynes a Keynesian?
In theory."
The Washington Post
"The Debt Deal and the Divide"
CNN's Global Public Square Blog
"Reagan and Thatcher Made a Truly Dynamic Duo"
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Nicholas Wapshott's Article Archive
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Nicholas Wapshott's Article Archive
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Featured Book
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher
“Wapshott is insightful and exhaustive…favors the nitty-gritty, painting a portrait of the friendship that shaped the 1980's and the alliance that won the cold war.”
—Publishers Weekly
Speaking Topics
- Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage
- Reagan’s Conservatism
- The Life and Death of Princess Diana
- George W. Bush and Tony Blair
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The Anglosphere
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Speaking Topics — Nicholas Wapshott
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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