Never Had It So Good

[Dave Monroe]

Sandbrook, Dominic.  Never Had It So Good:
   A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles.
   London: Little, Brown, 2005.

In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old
myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the
tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER
HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look
at the dramatic story of affluence and decline between
1956 and 1963. Arguing that historians have until now
been besotted by the supposed cultural revolution of
the Sixties, Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this
controversial period and paints a more complicated
picture of a society caught between conservatism and
change. He explores the growth of a modern consumer
society, the impact of immigration, the invention of
modern pop music and the British retreat from empire.
He tells the story of the colourful characters of the
period, like Harold Macmillan, Kingsley Amis and Paul
McCartney, and brings to life the experience of the
first post-imperial generation, from the Notting Hill
riots to the first Beatles hits, from the Profumo
scandal to the cult of James Bond. In this strikingly
impressive debut, he combines academic verve and
insight with colourful, dramatic writing to produce a
classic, ground-breaking work that will change forever
how we think about the Sixties.

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