English Affair

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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. Britain in 1963
- Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government dedicated to tradition hierarchy & above all old-fashioned morality. But a breakdown of social boundaries saw nightclub hostesses mixing with aristocrats & middle-class professionals dabbling in criminality. Meanwhile Cold War paranoia gripped the public imagination. The Profumo Affair was a perfect storm & when it broke it rocked the Establishment. In An English Affair the author of the critically-acclaimed Titainic Lives Richard Davenport-Hines brings Swinging London to life. The cast of players

Includes:: the familiar
- louche doctor Stephen Ward good-time girls Christine Keeler & Mandy Rice-Davies & Secretary for War John Profumo himself. But we also encounter the tabloid hacks property developers & hangers-on whose roles have until now never been fully revealed. Sex drugs class race chequebook journalism & the criminal underworld
- the Profumo Affair had it all. This is the story of how Sixties England cast off respectability & fell in love with scandal.