Having it So Good
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy''s Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow of war into growing affluence.
The 1950s was the decade in which Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, Bill Haley released ''Rock Around the Clock'', rationing ended and Britain embarked on the traumatic, disastrous...
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy''s Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow of war into growing affluence.
The 1950s was the decade in which Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, Bill Haley released ''Rock Around the Clock'', rationing ended and Britain embarked on the traumatic, disastrous...
