A Classless Society: (Book by turner): BOOK REVIEW: A Classless Society is an extraordinarily comprehensive work. Turner writes brilliantly creating a compelling narrative of the Decade weaving contrasting elements together with a
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A Classless Society:
(Book by turner):
BOOK REVIEW:
A Classless Society is an extraordinarily comprehensive work.
Turner writes brilliantly creating a compelling narrative of the
Decade weaving contrasting elements together with a natural
storyteller’s aplomb…engaging and unique” IRVINE WELSH
Daily Telegraph “Ravenously inquisitive darkly comical and coolly
undeceived…Turner is a master of the telling detail” CRAIG
BROWN Mail on Sunday When Margaret Thatcher was ousted
from Downing Street in November 1990, after eleven years of
bitter social and economic conflict many hoped that the decade
to come would be more ‘caring’ others dared to believe that the
more radical policies of her revolution might even be overturned.
Across politics and culture there was an apparent yearning for
something the Iron Lady had famously dismissed: society. Yet the
forces that had warred over the country during the 1980s were to
prevent any simple turning back of the clock. The ‘New Britain’ to
emerge under John Major and Tony Blair would be a
contradiction: economically unequal but culturally classless. While
Westminster agoni Opening with a war in the Gulf and ending
with the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 A Classless
Society goes in search of the decade when modern Britain came
of age. What it finds is a nation anxiously grappling with new
technologie tentatively embracing new lifestyles and above all
forging a new sense of what it means to be British. “Deserves to
become a classic” EDWINA CURRIE “Rich and encyclopaedic”
ROGER LEWIS, Daily Mail “Excellent” D.J. TAYLOR
IndependentALWYN W. TURNER is the author of Crisis? What
Crisis? Britain in the 1970s and Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the
1980s both published by Aurum Press. An acclaimed writer on
post-war British culture, his other books include The Biba
Experience, Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock and
My Generation: The Glory Years of British Rock.
Publisher :Aurum (2 December 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 624 pages
ISBN-10 : 1781310688
ISBN-13 : 978-1781310687
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