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White Heat

White Heat

A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties

by Dominic Sandbrook
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/01/2008

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



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.
ISBN:
9780349118208
9780349118208
Category:
British & Irish history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-01-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
976
Dimensions (mm):
195x128x47mm
Weight:
0.68kg

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