The Neophiliacs: The Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties - Hardcover

Booker, Christopher.

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9780002115582: The Neophiliacs: The Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties

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ISBN 10: 0002115581 ISBN 13: 9780002115582

Publisher: Collins, 1969

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Booker, Christopher. The Neophiliacs. A Study of the Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties. London, Collins, 1969. 22.2cm x 14.2cm. 381 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Around the mid-1950s, on a wave of technological advances, Western civilisation moved into a period of prosperity dwarfing anything that had ever gone before. How golden was this age of affluence? How did it come to spawn a legend? The Fifties and Sixties are said to have witnessed sexual, artistic and scientific revolutions, the explosion of youth culture, the creation of a classless society. The New Aristocrats were pop singers, clothes designers, actors and actresses, film-makers, photographers, artists, writers, models and restaurateurs. Christopher Booker disentangles fantasy and reality, the ephemeral from the enduring. He charts the rise and fall of a collective dream.

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