Having it So Good: Britain in the FiftiesPenguin Books Limited, 2007年5月3日 - 800 頁 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. |
內容
The British New Deal and the Essentials of Life | 6 |
Society Pleasure and the Imponderables | 63 |
The Shadow of the Bomb | 133 |
著作權所有 | |
13 個其他區段未顯示
其他版本 - 查看全部
常見字詞
American atomic Attlee became become believed bomb Britain British Butler Cabinet called cent Churchill civil Colonial Committee Commons Conservative continued culture deal Defence diary early economic Eden effect Empire England entry Europe European fact figures force Foreign Home House Ibid important industrial intelligence Italy January John July June Labour late later living London look Lord Macmillan March meeting Middle never noted November nuclear October Office once operation Party perhaps Peter political position possible postwar Press Prime Minister problem production question reached Report Secretary Service social society Soviet Suez television thing thought told took trade Treasury turned Union United University Whitehall wrote young