The Seventies Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic Look at a Violent Decade - Hardcover

DeGroot, Gerard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230703852 ISBN 13: 9780230703858

Verlag: Macmillan, 2010

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Reseña del editor:

'We all disappeared,' wrote the Sixties flower child Andrea Adam of her friends who once marched for peace and love. 'Suddenly ... everybody had gone their own way. Suddenly everyone was knee-deep in mortgages and scrabbling for a half-decent job.' For too long, the accepted version of the Seventies has been one constructed by those embittered by the failures of the Sixties. The decade is seen as punishment for the propensity to dream. While we remember the best of the Sixties, we recall the worse of the Seventies. Now, Gerard DeGroot, author of the acclaimed The Sixties Unplugged, turns his incisive and often iconoclastic eye on the 1970s and shows that the reality is somewhat different. Praise for The Sixties Unplugged:'What makes DeGroot's book special, though, is that he adds in so many unfamiliar parts of the story, and has such a wicked eye for damning quotes' Andrew Marr, Mail on Sunday

Biografía del autor:

Gerard de Groot is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, where he has taught in 1985. An American by birth, de Groot came to the UK in 1980. He is the author of several highly acclaimed books on the history of the twentieth century, including The Bomb: A Life, which won the RUSI Westminster Medal, awarded in Britain to the best book published in the English language on a war or military topic. He is a regular contributor to a wide range of newpapers and journals. He lives in Scotland with his family.

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• Verlag: Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230703852
• ISBN 13: 9780230703858
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 560