
Making Things Happen
The Life and Original Thinking of Nigel Vinson
Gerald Frost(Author)
Biteback Publishing
Published on 16. March 2015
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Hardback
272 pages
978-1-84954-859-5 (ISBN)
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Before he was forty, Nigel Vinson - inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and farmer - had achieved what many struggle to achieve in an entire lifetime. He had created and built up a successful company based on his own ideas, floated it on stock exchange and made more than enough money to never have to work again. But, instead of retiring, Vinson forged a unique career in British public life as he sought to find answers to the daunting political and economic problems confronting Britain. This was partly achieved through the wider application of ideas he had developed when running his own business, but also by helping, funding and cooperating with others he judged capable of making a contribution to the country's recovery. We have it on the authority of Margaret Thatcher herself that Thatcherism would never have happened without the Centre for Policy Studies - the think tank Vinson helped her establish. This biography tells the story of a man whose influence, both direct and indirect, has been considerably greater than is widely realised.He is a man who saw through the fashionable shibboleths of his day but was often ahead of the trend; a man whose 'do as you would be done by' moral philosophy, enormously practical nature and infectious enthusiasm have been fundamental to his continued success.
Nigel Vinson is a man who has made things happen - and he continues to do so to this day.
Nigel Vinson is a man who has made things happen - and he continues to do so to this day.
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Illustrations
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978-1-84954-859-5 (9781849548595)
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Gerald Frost is a journalist who has written widely on domestic and international politics. He was director of the London-based Centre for Policy Studies (1992 - 5) and, prior to that, of the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies (1980 - 92), which he founded. He is presently director of the Danube Institute, an independent centre of intellectual debate for Conservatives and their democratic opponents, which is based in Budapest, Hungary.