Promised You A Miracle

Andy Beckett

ISBN 10: 0241956889 / ISBN 13: 9780241956885

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, GB, 2016

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'Offers so much pleasure and insight' Guardian'Entertaining, convincing and timely' The TimesA vivid, seminal portrait of the early 1980s: a period that changed Britain foreverThe early 1980s in Britain were a time of hope, and of dread: of Cold War tension and imminent conflict, when crowds in the street could mean an ecstatic national celebration or an inner-city riot. Here, Andy Beckett recreates an often misunderstood moment of transition, with all its potential and uncertainty: the first precarious years of Margaret Thatcher's government. By the end of 1982, the country was changing, leaving the kinder, more sluggish postwar Britain decisively behind, and becoming the country we have lived in ever since: assertive, commercially driven, outward-looking, often harsher than its neighbours.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Promised You A Miracle
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241956889
• ISBN 13: 9780241956885
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 337 grams

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Synopsis

Promised You A Miracle

About the Author

Andy Beckett writes for the Guardian. He has also written for the Economist, The New York Times magazine, the London Review of Books and the Independent on Sunday. His previous books are When the Lights Went Out and Pinochet in Piccadilly.