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Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain 1921-2010
By (author) Ruth Winstone, Edited by Ruth Winstone
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Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the elation, anger, doubts, jealousy, joys and fears of those such as Nicolson, Cooper, Channon, Macmillan, Castle, Clark, Benn, Campbell, Mullin and Ashdown as they record their own and the nation's triumphs and disasters. To this potent mix she adds the mordant perceptions of observers like Virginia Woolf, Cecil Beaton, Peter Hall and Roy Strong, and the vivid records of everyday life found in the diaries of otherwise ordinary men and women. Events, Dear Boy, Events reveals Britain's recent past in the words of the actors who were shaping the events of the day. This is living real-time history.
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Publisher | Profile Books Ltd
Published date | 4 Oct 2012
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 640
Dimensions | 242 x 163 x 54mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 1045g
ISBN | 978-1-8466-8432-6
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BISAC | history / europe / great britain
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