White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties - Rilegato

Sandbrook, Dominic

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ISBN 10: 0316724521 ISBN 13: 9780316724524

Casa editrice: Little, Brown, 2006

Riassunto

Few could have missed Dominic Sandbrook's breathtaking debut NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, which received exceptional reviews across the board. In WHITE HEAT he takes his history of Britain from the election of Harold Wilson through the heart of 'Swinging London' to its conclusion in 1970, when the government fell, the Beatles broke up and the English football team lost the World Cup.
The memories and images of these heady days still resonate today: Mods and Rockers, mop-tops and mini-skirts, strikes and demonstrations, James Bond and The Avengers, Carnaby Street and the King's Road. So too do the colourful personalities who dominated the era: Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, Mary Quant and Jean Shrimpton, Enoch Powell and Mary Whitehouse, Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger.
As gripping and as meticulously researched as NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, WHITE HEAT will establish Dominic Sandbrook as the foremost historian of modern Britain at work today.

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Recensione:

An active pleasure to read. This is a deftly written and evocative account of the day before yesterday ... (Peter Hitchens, MAIL on Sunday, Books of The Year)

A substantial contribution to our understanding of the social and political history of modern Britain (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

This is history of a commendably inclusive range (SUNDAY TIMES)

This second volume lives up to the promise of the first ... Sandbrook is an inveterate demolisher of myths (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

Descrizione del libro:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Little, Brown
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0316724521
• ISBN 13: 9780316724524
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 896