Ebook: Strange days indeed: the golden age of paranoia
Author: Nixon Richard Milhous, Wheen Francis, Wilson Harold
- Tags: Cold War, Espionage, Espionage--History--20th century, Nineteen seventies, Paranoia, Psychology, World politics, World politics--1965-1975, World politics--1975-1985, History, Nixon Richard M. -- (Richard Milhous) -- 1913-1994 -- Psychology, Wilson Harold -- 1916-1995 -- Psychology, World politics -- 1965-1975, World politics -- 1975-1985, Espionage -- History -- 20th century, Nixon Richard M. -- (Richard Milhous) -- 1913-1994, Wilson Harold -- 1916-1995
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- City: London
- Language: English
- epub
"Strange Days Indeed tells the story of the decade that a young Francis Wheen walked into having pronounced he was dropping out to join the alternative society. Instead of the optimistic dreams of the Sixties he found a world on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown, huddled over candles waiting for the next terrorist bomb, kidnapping or food shortage warning." "Whether it was Nixon's demented behaviour in the White House, Harold Wilson's insistence that 'they' (whoever 'they' were) were out to get him, or the trial of Rupert Bear, it is a story almost too fantastical to be true. With his acute sense of the absurd, Francis Wheen slices through the pungent melange of mistrust and conspiratorial fever to expose the sickly form of a decade in which nations were brought to a sclerotic halt by power cults, military coups, economic anarchy and the arrival of Uri Geller."--Jacket.