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Andrew Marr’s history of modern Britain confronts the victory of shopping over politics and includes an additional chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit. It tells how grand political visions such as New Jerusalem and a second Elizabethan Age were defeated by consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In every decade, political leaders believe they know what they are doing, only to be confounded by a British public more difficult to control than expected. Britain is portrayed as a country on the edge: threatened first by invasion, then bankruptcy, the Cold War and later the worldwide transformation brought by the opening of capital and migration. Alongside political and economic developments, the book explores comedy, cars, the persecution of homosexuals, Sixties anarchists, oilmen, punks, Margaret Thatcher’s remarkable good fortune, political lies and the true heroes of British theatre.
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Author: Marr Andrew
Language: English
Publication date: April 6, 2017
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Books on science in english, Non-fiction literature in english
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 671
ISBN/EAN: 9781509839667