White Heat

White Heat

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780349118208
Untertitel:
A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
Genre:
Geschichte
Autor:
Sandbrook Dominic
Herausgeber:
ABACUS
Anzahl Seiten:
976
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2008
ISBN:
978-0-349-11820-8

Zusatztext This second volume lives up to the promise of the first ... Sandbrook is an inveterate demolisher of myths Informationen zum Autor Born in Shropshire in 1974, Dominic Sandbrook was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, the University of St Andrews and Jesus College, Cambridge. He taught history at the University of Sheffield and has been a Senior Fellow at the Rothermere Institute, University of Oxford. Klappentext The sequel to "Never Had It So Good", this completes Dominic Sandbrook's groundbreaking history of Britain in the 1960s. Unearthing the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline, it covers everything from Mick Jagger to Enoch Powell. It sold 8000 copies in hardback. 'A triumph' "Daily Telegraph" * The sequel to NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, this completes Dominic Sandbrook's groundbreaking history of Britain in the 1960s Zusammenfassung * The sequel to NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, this completes Dominic Sandbrook's groundbreaking history of Britain in the 1960s

Vorwort
* The sequel to NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, this completes Dominic Sandbrook's groundbreaking history of Britain in the 1960s

Autorentext
Born in Shropshire in 1974, Dominic Sandbrook was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, the University of St Andrews and Jesus College, Cambridge. He taught history at the University of Sheffield and has been a Senior Fellow at the Rothermere Institute, University of Oxford.

Klappentext
The sequel to "Never Had It So Good", this completes Dominic Sandbrook's groundbreaking history of Britain in the 1960s. Unearthing the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline, it covers everything from Mick Jagger to Enoch Powell. It sold 8000 copies in hardback. 'A triumph' "Daily Telegraph"


Zusammenfassung
Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum.

The memories, images and colourful personalities of those heady times still resonate today: mop-tops and mini-skirts, strikes and demonstrations, Carnaby Street and Kings Road, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, Mary Quant and Jean Shrimpton, Enoch Powell and Mary Whitehouse, Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger.

In this wonderfully rich and readable historical narrative, Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the Swinging Sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline.


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