Promised you a miracle : why 1980-82 made modern Britain
Beckett, Andy, 1969-2016
Books, Manuscripts
In the cold, dark summer of 1981, crowds gathering in Britain's streets could mean a royal wedding - or a riot. Margaret Thatcher's government, taking power on a promise of renewal, seemed in catastrophic decline. Britain remained troubled, inward-looking, run down by recession, transfixed by the threat of nuclear war. Yet, within this bleak landscape, something was stirring. 'Promised You A Miracle' is the extraordinary untold story of Britain's revolution in the head: a shift in mass consciousness in which an old, self-doubting nation was transformed into something else: outward-looking, materialistic, colourful, lonely and cruel.
Promised you a miracle : why 1980-82 made modern Britain / Andy Beckett.
Beckett, Andy, 1969-, author
UK : Penguin Books, 2016.
xxiii, 435 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
9780241956885 (pbk)
English
2067692