Margaret Thatcher

The first woman democratically elected as head of government in Europe, Margaret Thatcher inspired but also exasperated a generation of women political leaders who

Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” of British politics, who pulled her country back from 35 years of left-wing government, led it to victory in the Falklands war and helped guide the United States and the Soviet Union through the cold war’s difficult last years, died on Monday.