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An English Affair - Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (Hardcover)
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An English Affair - Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (Hardcover)
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Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo
scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation
on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 - Harold
Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government,
dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above all, old-fashioned
morality. But a breakdown of social boundaries saw nightclub
hostesses mixing with aristocrats, and middle-class professionals
dabbling in criminality. Meanwhile, Cold War paranoia gripped the
public imagination. The Profumo Affair was a perfect storm, and
when it broke it rocked the Establishment. In 'An English Affair',
the author of the critically-acclaimed 'Titainic Lives' Richard
Davenport-Hines brings Swinging London to life. The cast of players
includes the familiar - louche doctor Stephen Ward, good-time girls
Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, and Secretary for War John
Profumo himself. But we also encounter the tabloid hacks, property
developers and hangers-on whose roles have, until now, never been
fully revealed. Sex, drugs, class, race, chequebook journalism and
the criminal underworld - the Profumo Affair had it all. This is
the story of how Sixties England cast off respectability and fell
in love with scandal.
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