Having it So Good by Peter Hennessy
Evokes Britain emerging from the shadow of war and the privations of austerity and rationing into growing affluence. This book takes the readers into the rooms where the Coronation was watched on television, and into the secret Cabinet rooms in which decisions about the nuclear bomb were taken and plans made for the catastrophe of nuclear war.
Peter Hennessy was described by the late Ben Pimlott as 'a political historian and journalist who has himself become something of a national institution'. He is Attlee Professor of History at Queen Mary College, London, and the author of Never Again: Britain 1945-51 (winner of the NCR Prize); the best-selling The Prime Minister and The Secret State (all Penguin). He is a frequent broadcaster and is regularly consulted by all political parties on constitutional and historical questions.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713995718 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713995718 |
| Title | Having it So Good |
| Author | Peter Hennessy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 768 |
| Prizes | Winner of Orwell Prize 2007, Short-listed for BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2007 |
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