An English Affair 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 英文 英國史 傳記 曆史 黑色幽默 近代史 2013
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Quick-witted and scathing, with many good social commentary about that country. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. @upshine @aspire
評分Quick-witted and scathing, with many good social commentary about that country. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. @upshine @aspire
評分Quick-witted and scathing, with many good social commentary about that country. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. @upshine @aspire
評分Quick-witted and scathing, with many good social commentary about that country. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. @upshine @aspire
評分Quick-witted and scathing, with many good social commentary about that country. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. @upshine @aspire
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution.
Britain in 1963 – Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government, dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above all, old-fashioned morality. But a breakdown of social boundaries saw nightclub hostesses mixing with aristocrats, and middle-class professionals dabbling in criminality. Meanwhile, Cold War paranoia gripped the public imagination.
The Profumo Affair was a perfect storm, and when it broke it rocked the Establishment. In ‘An English Affair’, the author of the critically-acclaimed ‘Titainic Lives’ Richard Davenport-Hines brings Swinging London to life. The cast of players includes the familiar – louche doctor Stephen Ward, good-time girls Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, and Secretary for War John Profumo himself. But we also encounter the tabloid hacks, property developers and hangers-on whose roles have, until now, never been fully revealed.
Sex, drugs, class, race, chequebook journalism and the criminal underworld – the Profumo Affair had it all. This is the story of how Sixties England cast off respectability and fell in love with scandal.
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An English Affair 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2024