An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the age of Profumo [Audiobook] download free by Richard Davenport Hines
- Listen audiobook: An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the age of Profumo
- Author: Richard Davenport Hines
- Release date: 2013/2/15
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780007435852
- Rating: 8.12 of 10
- Votes: 175
- Review by: Forrest Nagel
- Review rating: 7.29 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/5
- Duration: 4H22M42S in 256 kbps (70.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WAV, MPEG-4 DST, MPEG4, MPEG-4 SLS, WMA, MP3 (compression ISO, ZIP, TAR.7Z, TGZ, DMG, CAB, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 352
- Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M39S (6.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: True Story Books, Politics & Government, Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000, British & Irish History
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 9.14 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x27mm
- Weight: 320g
- Printed by: HarperPress
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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