Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties

Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties

by Peter Hennessy
Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties

Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties

by Peter Hennessy

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Overview

Winner of the Orwell Prize.

The second part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy, Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow of war into growing affluence.

The 1950s was the decade in which Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, Bill Haley released Rock Around the Clock, rationing ended and Britain embarked on the traumatic, disastrous Suez War.

In this highly enjoyable, original book, Peter Hennessy takes his readers into front rooms, classrooms, cabinet rooms and the new high-street coffee bars of Britain to recapture, as no previous history has, the feel, the flavour and the politics of this extraordinary time of change.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780141004099
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/19/2008
Pages: 752
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.38(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Peter Hennessy, one of Britain's best-known historians, is Attlee Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of the classic 'post-war trilogy', Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 (winner of the NCR and Duff Cooper Prizes), Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties (winner of the Orwell Prize) and Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties, the bestselling The Prime Minister and The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945-2010. He was made an independent crossbench life Peer in 2010.
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