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The Five Giants [New Edition] - A Biography of the Welfare State (Paperback, Revised edition)
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The Five Giants [New Edition] - A Biography of the Welfare State (Paperback, Revised edition)
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A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR A LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF
THE YEAR The award-winning history of the British Welfare State -
now fully revised and updated for the 21st Century. 'A masterpiece'
Sunday Times Giant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant
Squalor. Giant Idleness. These were the Five Giants that loomed
over the post-war reconstruction of Britain. The battle against
them was fought by five gargantuan programmes that made up the core
of the Welfare State: social security, health, education, housing
and a policy of full employment. This book brilliantly captures the
high hopes of the period in which the Welfare State was created and
the cranky zeal of its inventor, William Beveridge, telling the
story of how his vision inspired an entire country. The pages of
this modern classic hum with the energies and passions of
activists, dreamers and ordinary Britons, and seethe with personal
vendettas, forced compromises, awkward contradictions, and the
noisy rows of the succeeding seventy years. The Five Giants is a
testament to a concept of government that is intertwined with so
many of our personal histories, and a stark reminder of what we
might stand to lose.
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