Blackwell UK
Having it So Good
Britain in the Fifties
ISBN: 9780141004099
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: illustrated edition
Evokes Britain emerging from the shadow of war and the privations of austerity and rationing into growing affluence. This book brings to life the ageing Churchill, in his last spell as Prime Minister, and Anthony Eden taking his country to war in the teeth of American opposition and world opinion. More
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Hennessy combines the balance and authority of a historian with the brilliantly selective eye of the investigative journalist ... if the Gods gossip this is how it would sound Books of the Year Spectator
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"Having It So Good" evokes Britain emerging from the shadow of war and the privations of austerity and rationing into growing affluence. Peter Hennessy takes his readers into the front-rooms where the Coronation was watched on television, to the classrooms and now coffee bars of 1950s Britain - and also into the secret Cabinet rooms in which decisions about the British nuclear bomb were taken and plans made for the catastrophe of nuclear war. He brings to life the ageing Churchill, in his last faltering spell as Prime Minister, the highly-strung Anthony Eden taking his country to war in the teeth of American opposition and world opinion, and the rise of 'Supermac' Harold Macmillan, gliding over problems with his Edwardian insouciance. Above all, "Having It So Good" captures the smell and the flavour of an extraordinary decade in which affluence and anxiety combined to produce their own winds of change.
