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Having It So Good

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#272566
Titel	Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties
Auteur	Hennessy, Peter
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London, Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0713995718
ISBN13	9780713995718
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	"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 taken and plans made for the catastrophe of nuclear war. He brings to life the ageing Churchill, in his last faltering spell as Prime Minister, the highly-strung Anthony Eden taking his country to war in the teeth of American opposition and world opinion, and the rise of 'Supermac' Harold Macmillan, gliding over problems with his Edwardian insouciance. Above all, "Having It So Good" captures the smell and the flavour of an extraordinary decade in which affluence and anxiety combined to produce their own winds of change.
Pagina's	740
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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