Charles Moore joined the staff of the Daily Telegraph in 1979, and as a political columnist in the 1980s covered several years of Mrs Thatcher's first and second governments. He was Editor of the Spectator 1984-90; Editor of the Sunday Telegraph 1992-95; and Editor of the Daily Telegraph 1995-2003, for which he is still a regular columnist. The first volume of his biography of Margaret Thatcher, published in 2013, won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize and Political Book of the Year at the Paddy Power Political Book Awards.
Moore's project is a study of detailed depth, and fine and transparent judgements, which rises to the largeness of a figure and a time that were of world significance -- John Lloyd * Financial Times * As close as biography can come to being a work of art -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday * One of the great biographical achievements of our times -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times * Praise for the first two volumes * : * Like the grandest of operas, Charles Moore's magnificent record of Margaret Thatcher's life comes in three acts. ... Now comes the third, the dramatic climax as the orchestra belts out tunes to a plot of betrayal, disaster and a lonely death. -- Julian Glover * Evening Standard * Reviewers are supposed never to use the word definitive about a history book or biograph, but with Charles Moore's life of Margaret Thatcher, of which this is the triumphant last volume, one has no other option. ... an absolute masterpiece of the biographer's art. -- Andrew Roberts * Daily Telegraph *