An English Affair - Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (2013) [5 Formats] {VTS}

Title: An English Affair - Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo
Author: Richard Davenport-Hines
Category: Academic/Politics/History
Publisher: HarperPress; 1st Edition edition (3 Jan 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0007435843
ISBN-13: 978-0007435845



Publisher's summary - "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."

Review:
"This is more than simply an overview of the affair…Davenport-Hines skewers an entire society" -Independent on Sunday Books of the Year

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