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Harold Wilson''s famous reference to ''white heat'' captured
the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking
change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic
bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to
the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a
dramatic new momentum. The memories, images and colourful
personalities of those heady times still resonate today: mop-tops
and mini-skirts, strikes and demonstrations, Carnaby Street and
Kings Road, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, Mary Quant and Jean
Shrimpton, Enoch Powell and Mary Whitehouse, Marianne Faithfull and
Mick Jagger. In this wonderfully rich and readable historical
narrative, Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the Swinging
Sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between
optimism and decline.
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