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An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (English Edition)

Catégorie: Dictionnaires, langues et encyclopédies, Tourisme et voyages
Auteur: Davenport-Hines, Davenport- Hines R.P.T.
Éditeur: Gerda Muller
Publié: 2017-05-09
Écrivain: Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Art Spiegelman
Langue: Espagnol, Basque, Japonais, Vietnamien, Hollandais
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An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo. - Age of Profumo. Dedication. For Jenny, Christopher and Hugo, and never forgetting Cosmo. Though most English men and women cannot 'let themselves go', they love to think and read about people who do throw off inhibitions, either with sex or violence - provided they are punished.

An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power in the Age of Profumo - Richard Davenport-Hines. "An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo The police coerced Christine Keeler into giving perjured evidence against 'Lucky' Gordon. He looked spruce when months later she was for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice during

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo - 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 Sex, drugs, class, race, chequebook journalism and the criminal underworld - the Profumo Affair had it all. This is the story of how Sixties

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the age of Profumo - The Profumo scandal exposed a class-ridden country mired in hypocrisy, writes John Kampfner. The era bears a name: Profumo. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the affair to beat all affairs, Richard Davenport-Hines's book on the scandal is a masterful depiction of everything that

Epigraph . An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age - Though most English men and women cannot 'let themselves go', they love to think and read about people who do throw off inhibitions, either with sex or violence - provided they are punished. Geoffrey Gorer, 'This is the English', The People, 30 September 1951.

David Runciman · Take a bullet for the team: The Profumo - An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines. What Profumo always had going for him as war secretary was his own war record. During the Second World War he demonstrated conspicuous personal bravery, both on and off the battlefield.

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo, By - Davenport-Hines relishes the class split in this wonderful and exacting social history of the Fifties and Sixties. Things were being revealed, that hadn't been This is more than simply an overview of the affair between John Profumo and Christine Keeler; Davenport-Hines skewers an entire society,

An English affair : sex, class and power in the age of - Xv, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm. A racy snapshot of Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Profumo affair. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo - 'In Britain the activities of the intelligence and security services have always been regarded in much the same light as marital sex,' as Howard explained four years later. 'Everyone knows that it goes on and is quite content that it should, but to speak, write or ask questions about it is regarded as

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An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of - 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.

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An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo - Sex, class and official secrecy were connected taboos. The uproar after the disappearance of Burgess and Maclean aroused class tensions. They were public school men, Cambridge graduates, alcoholics: Burgess an outright member of the 'Homintern', and Maclean bisexual. They had been recruited

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An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of - '[The Profumo Affair] has found a marvellous chronicler in Davenport-Hines, an incisive writer with a terrific eye for detail' Sunday Telegraph. This is a cheerful look, with acknowledged bias, at the underbelly of British class. I remember all this happening, and this nicely captures what was

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of - It is, however, true that the Profumo Affair snared a specific, secret susceptibility of Macmillan's. The 'foursome', as Harold Wilson slyly called Ward At the age of twenty-eight he was commanding officer of the RAF's City of Edinburgh bomber squadron. By his early thirties his expertise in housing

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An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of - the affair suggested, a prostitute. In a vain attempt to protect his family, Profumo made a personal statement to the Commons denying "impropriety". Still, these are well-worn themes and it seems that the main purpose of An English Affair is to rerun all the old stories: how Profumo stumbled upon

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An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo - English morality, politics and hypocrisy. This is a riveting account of English political life leading up to and including the Profumo Affair. All the background to society morals and its hypocrisy, manipulations and injustice is spelled out in gripping detail.

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo - A scrupulous analysis of the Profumo affair separates fact from the fantasy to give an outstanding account of a key event in modern British history. Unfortunately for the minister concerned, not everyone agreed. Later that night, John Profumo

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo - Francis Beckett is enthralled by a study of the Profumo Affair - and what it says about England of the 1960.

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An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo - Though most English men and women cannot 'let themselves go', they love to think and read about people who do throw off inhibitions, either with Ward, the scapegoat of the Profumo Affair, spent the night before his show trial opened at the Old Bailey in a friend's flat in Montagu Square:

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