- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Pimlico; New edition edition (12 Nov 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0712655050
- ISBN-13: 978-0712655057
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 713,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Around the mid-1950s, on a wave of technological advances, Western civilisation moved into a period of prosperity dwarfing anything that had ever gone before. How golden was this age of affluence? How did it come to spawn a legend? The Fifties and Sixties are said to have witnessed sexual, artistic and scientific revolutions, the explosion of youth culture, the creation of a classless society. The New Aristocrats were pop singers, clothes designers, actors and actresses, film-makers, photographers, artists, writers, models and restaurateurs. Christopher Booker disentangles fantasy and reality, the ephemeral from the enduring. He charts the rise and fall of a collective dream.
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Simply the best book on the 50s and 60s in Britain that I have come across. Well-researched and incisive, the author recounts (and contextualises) the heady excesses that characterised the era with a detached, trenchant amusement that had me laughing out loud on several occasions. Intellectually impressive and eminently readable, I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the period.
A very good book. History repeats itself. The only thing I didn't like was that the book runs out of steam. Booker kind of gives up after 1966. I'm keen to read his book on the 70s now. Anyone wondering why Britain is in such a mess now should definitely read this!
If you're looking for a book that reads the 50s and 60s through an arch-Tory, evangelical Anglican, anti-reformist viewpoint, then this book will satisfy you immeasurably. If, however, you're after a book that presents the period with anything approaching historical or political rigour, then this is not it.
This book is less history, and more eccentric mysticism.
This book is less history, and more eccentric mysticism.
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