Having it So Good
Britain in the Fifties
$60.18
- Paperback
768 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2007
Summary
The most celebrated history book of autumn 2006 comes with a massive publicity campaign.
Having It So Good evokes Britain emerging from the shadow of war and the privations of austerity and rationing into growing affluence. Peter Hennessy takes his readers into the front-rooms where the Coronation was watched on television, to the classrooms and now coffee bars of 1950s Britain - and also into the secret Cabinet rooms in which decisions about the British nuclear bomb were tak…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141004099 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141004096 |
| Author: | Peter Hennessy |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 768 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 568g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 34mm |
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Hennessy combines the balance and authority of a historian with the brilliantly selective eye of the investigative journalist … if the Gods gossip this is how it would sound Books of the Year – Philip Ziegler Spectator
About The Author
Peter Hennessy
Peter Hennessy is one of Britain’s most celebrated historians, ‘who has himself become something of a national institution’ (Ben Pimlott). He is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary University of London. His previous books include this book’s two immediate predecessors, Never Again- Britain 1945-1951 (1992, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and the NCR Prize for Non-fiction) and Having it so Good- Britain in the Fifties (2006, winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing). His other books include Cabinet (1986), Whitehall (1989), The Prime Minister- The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 (2000), The Secret State- Preparing for the Worst (2002, 2010) and, co-authored with James Jinks, The Silent Deep- The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 (2015, winner of the Duke of Westminster’s Award for Military Literature and the Mountbatten Maritime Award). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003 and created an independent crossbench life peer as Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield in 2010.
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