Ebook: An English affair: sex, class and power in the age of Profumo
- Tags: Political corruption, Political corruption--Great Britain--History--20th century, Politics and government, Politik, Politisk korruption, Scandals, Scandals--Great Britain--History--20th century, Skandaler--historia, History, Biography, Political corruption -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Scandals -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1964-1979, Profumo John D. -- Sexual behavior, Keeler Christine -- Sexual behavior, Profumo John D, Keeler Chris
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- City: Great Britain;Storbritannien
- Language: English
- epub
A racy snapshot of Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo Affair. Britain in the late 1950s was a highly regimented society, still dominated by the memory of two world wars. The Prime Minster, Harold Macmillan, was a patrician former publisher who was associated in the public mind with the grouse moor, and the Conservative Party he led favoured stability, hierarchy, traditional morality and a conservative resistance to change. But beneath the surface were pent-up social forces that burst into the open with the Profumo Affair. In An English Affair, the masterly biographer Richard Davenport-Hines introduces us to a compelling cast of characters among them the aristocrat Lord Astor, the society osteopath Stephen Ward, the call-girl Christine Keeler and Minister of War Jack Profumo as the story builds to its gripping and deadly climax. In so doing he exposes the hypocrisy and prejudice of a country on the brink...
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