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Winds of Change - Britain in the Early Sixties (Paperback)
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Winds of Change - Britain in the Early Sixties (Paperback)
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Following Never Again and Having It So Good, the third part of
Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy 'By far the best study
of early Sixties Britain ... so much fun, yet still shrewd and
important' The Times, Books of the Year Harold Macmillan famously
said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and
the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain too -
its society; its relationship with Europe; its nuclear and defence
policy. And where it was not blowing hard enough - the United
Kingdom's economy - great efforts were made to sweep away the
cobwebs of old industrial practices and poor labour relations. Life
was lived in the knowledge that it could end in a single afternoon
of thermonuclear exchange if the uneasy, armed peace of the Cold
War tipped into a Third World War. In Winds of Change we see
Macmillan gradually working out his 'grand design' - how to be part
of both a tight transatlantic alliance and Europe, dealing with his
fellow geostrategists Kennedy and de Gaulle. The centre of the book
is 1963 - the year of the Profumo Crisis, the Great Train Robbery,
the satire boom, de Gaulle's veto of Britain's first application to
join the EEC, the fall of Macmillan and the unexpected succession
to the premiership of Alec Douglas-Home. Then, in 1964, the battle
of what Hennessy calls the tweedy aristocrat and the tweedy
meritocrat - Harold Wilson, who would end 13 years of Conservative
rule and usher in a new era. As in his acclaimed histories of
British life in the two previous decades, Never Again and Having it
so Good, Peter Hennessy explains the political, economic, cultural
and social aspects of a nation with inimitable wit and empathy. No
historian knows the by-ways as well the highways of the archives so
well, and no one conveys the flavour of the period so engagingly.
The early sixties live again in these pages.
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