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Winds of Change by Peter Hennessy Book Summary
Following Never Again and Having It So Good, the third part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy
'By far the best study of early Sixties Britain ... so much fun, yet still shrewd and important' The Times, Books of the Year
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.
Book Name | Winds of Change |
Genre | European History |
Author | Peter Hennessy |
Published | 05 September 2019, Thursday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 38.87 MB |
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The Winds of Change book written by Peter Hennessy was published on 05 September 2019, Thursday in the European History category. A total of 6 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.
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