LORD YOUNG - The Enterprise Years A Businessman in the Cabinet

London England, Headline, 1990. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0747202753 Hardback Hardback. First Edition. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Slight wear to edge and corners of D/J. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. In 1974, the 42-year-old David Young, already a highly successful businessman, considered emigrating to the United States, he was convinced that Britain was in irreversible decline. The spirit of enterprise that had inspired his grandfather to emigrate from Lithuania to the East End of London in 1905 was all but dead - smothered in the 'corporatism' of the 1960s and 70s. Fortunately for Britain, David Young's emigration was short lived - and he went on to play a key role in the revival of the enterprise culture. In this remarkable memoir, Lord Young describes the ten years he spent at the heart of the 'Thatcher revolution' - first as Special Adviser at the Department of Trade and Industry when the first tentative steps were taken on the road to privatisation and the, when unemployment became a major problem, as a controversial Chairman of the Manpower Service Commission. In 1984 Margaret Thatcher put him in the Lords and in her Cabinet, first as Minister without Portfolio and the following year as Secretary of State for Employment. Illustrated. 338 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).