{"product_id":"winds-of-change-book-peter-hennessy-9781846141102","title":"Winds of Change","description":"From the celebrated author of Never Again and Having It So Good, a wonderfully vivid new history of Britain in the early 1960s  Harold Macmillan famously said in 1960 that the wind of change was  blowing over Africa and the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing  over Britain too - its society; its relationship with Europe; its  nuclear and defence policy. And where it was not blowing hard enough -  the United Kingdom's economy - great efforts were made to sweep away the  cobwebs of old industrial practices and poor labour relations. Life was  lived in the knowledge that it could end in a single afternoon of  thermonuclear exchange if the uneasy, armed peace of the Cold War tipped  into a Third World War.  In Winds of Change we see  Macmillan gradually working out his 'grand design' - how to be part of  both a tight transatlantic alliance and Europe, dealing with his fellow  geostrategists Kennedy and de Gaulle. The centre of the book is 1963 -  the year of the Profumo Crisis, the Great Train Robbery, the satire  boom, de Gaulle's veto of Britain's first application to join the EEC,  the fall of Macmillan and the unexpected succession to the premiership  of Alec Douglas-Home. Then, in 1964, the battle of what Hennessy calls  the tweedy aristocrat and the tweedy meritocrat - Harold Wilson, who  would end 13 years of Conservative rule and usher in a new era.  As in his acclaimed histories of British life in the two previous decades, Never Again and Having it so Good,  Peter Hennessy explains the political, economic, cultural and social  aspects of a nation with inimitable wit and empathy. No historian knows  the by-ways as well the highways of the archives so well, and no one  conveys the flavour of the period so engagingly. The early sixties live  again in these pages.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49519891087633,"sku":"GOR009997665","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49564774465809,"sku":"GOR010140695","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49617503912209,"sku":"CIN1846141109G","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107361714449,"sku":"CIN1846141109VG","price":15.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52153366905105,"sku":"GOR012180277","price":11.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53013473296657,"sku":"GOR010023504","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1846141109.jpg?v=1750768299","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/winds-of-change-book-peter-hennessy-9781846141102","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}