Never Had It So Good

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In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire & 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 & decline between 1956 & 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 & paints a more complicated picture of a society caught between conservatism & change. He explores the growth of a modern consumer society the impact of immigration the invention of modern pop music & the British retreat from empire. He tells the story of the colourful characters of the period like Harold Macmillan Kingsley Amis & Paul Mc Cartney & 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 & insight with colourful dramatic writing to produce a classic ground-breaking work that will change forever how we think about the Sixties.