Preface, by Norman Tebbit Editor's Foreword, by Mark Garnett Introduction 1: The Outsider Inside 2: Keith Joseph and the Centre for Policy Studies 3: Margaret Thatcher's Inheritance 4: Mrs Thatcher in Opposition, 1975-9 5: The First Thatcher Government, 1979-83 6: The Long Haul, 1983-90 7: The Legacies Appendix: Speech by Sir Keith Joseph at Upminster, June 22 1974 Bibliography Index
Sir Alfred Sherman was born in 1919 in London's East End. Until 1948 he was a Communist and fought in the Spanish Civil War, but he has ended up an indefatigable free-market crusader.
"These reflections by Thatcherism's inventor are necessary reading." -- Sir John Hoskyns Salisbury Review "Paradoxes of Power is both inspiring and depressing." -- Rodney Atkinson Campaign for UK Conservatism "Fascinating... anyone sceptical about think-tanks, small magazines, and even speeches, should read Sherman's marvellous little chapters on the Centre for Policy Studies and how they gradually transformed Mrs Thatcher from the untried party leader of 1974 into a prime-minister-in-waiting." -- Peter Coleman Quadrant "This book is as much an engrossing human interest story as it is a fascinating record of the metapolitics of that period or a wise animadversion on today's political realities." -- Derek Turner Chronicles "Alfred Sherman's views are always trenchant but what he has to say about the Conservative renaissance of the late 1970s and 1980s is of particular interest. This book should be read by anyone examining the period." -- Margaret Thatcher, April 2005 "These essays by 'Alfie' Sherman are highly relevant to the politics of today." -- Norman Tebbit, March 2005
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