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The Eighties may seem to many of us like yesterday, but they are already two decades ago. Not only have we already become nostalgic for them, but in many ways the decade does seem like a thoroughly foreign country. During the years when Thatcherism wiped out almost a quarter of Britain s heavy industry by savagely monetarist policies, a naval Task Force also sailed to re-take an insular outpost in the South Atlantic. In the same decade as the extraordinary pitched battles of the miners strike, Boy George sweetly crooned Karma Chameleon . As the world faced the early days of panic over the AIDS virus, pop stars took to the stage at Live Aid. Alwyn Turner s in-depth history of this most fascinating of decades has been highly praised by distinguished commentators like Dominic Sandbrook and Francis Wheen. If the Seventies, the subject of his previous book, were the last gasp of the old Britain, the Eighties were a truly transitional, politically revolutionary decade, when Thatcherism remade Britain s economy and its society, but when Britain s social fabric also changed in many infinitely more encouraging ways. Witty and formidably well-informed on political intrigue as well as every last soap opera and rock album, this is an exciting piece of genuinely new history.
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'Big hair, big money, big polictics: an entertaining guide to Thatcher's decade.' -- 'Must Read', Culture, The Sunday Times
'Dazzling overview of a demonised decade.' -- Mojo
'...Alwyn Turner's breathless romp through the 1980s overflows with unusual juxtapositions and surprising insights.' -- Culture, The Sunday Times
Alywn Turner has followed up Crisis? What Crisis? his acclaimed history of the 1970s with a witty, informed look at what came after.
-- Hamstead and Highgate Express
I also loved Alwyn Turner's splendid Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s... -- Dominic Sandbrook, New Statesman, November 2010
Readers of his book about the 1970s, Crisis? What Crisis?, will know of his talent for interpreting the politics of an epoch through its popular culture. -- Financial Times, November, 2010
This kaleidoscopic history...provides a vivid and enjoyable guide to these turbulent years. -- BBC History Magazine, August 2010
Turner has produced a masterly mix of shrewd analysis, historical detail and telling quotes....Indispensible.
About the Author:
'Dazzling overview of a demonised decade.' -- Mojo
'...Alwyn Turner's breathless romp through the 1980s overflows with unusual juxtapositions and surprising insights.' -- Culture, The Sunday Times
Alywn Turner has followed up Crisis? What Crisis? his acclaimed history of the 1970s with a witty, informed look at what came after.
-- Hamstead and Highgate Express
I also loved Alwyn Turner's splendid Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s... -- Dominic Sandbrook, New Statesman, November 2010
Readers of his book about the 1970s, Crisis? What Crisis?, will know of his talent for interpreting the politics of an epoch through its popular culture. -- Financial Times, November, 2010
This kaleidoscopic history...provides a vivid and enjoyable guide to these turbulent years. -- BBC History Magazine, August 2010
Turner has produced a masterly mix of shrewd analysis, historical detail and telling quotes....Indispensible.
***** -- Mail on Sunday, June, 2010
Among a host of recent books on the 1980s, Turner's stands out as comfortably the most entertaining.
-- The Sunday Times: Books of the Year
Alwyn Turner is the author of Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s and The Biba Experience. He lives in London.
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- PublisherAurum Press Ltd
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1845136217
- ISBN 13 9781845136215
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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