The Pendulum Years - Britain and the Sixties

Levin, Bernard

ISBN 10: 0224619632 / ISBN 13: 9780224619639

Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1970

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451 pp black cloth with gilt title. Signed by author and dedicated to the journalist Janet Watts. Book clean and sound, dust wrapper sunned on spine, a few spots.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pendulum Years - Britain and the Sixties
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224619632
• ISBN 13: 9780224619639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Signed

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Synopsis

Levin, Bernard. The Pendulum Years - Britain and the Sixties. First Edition. London, Jonathan Cape, 1970. 15 x 22 cm. 420 pages. Original Hardcover in original dustjacket (the dustjcaket in special Brodart-Cover). Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Henry Bernard Levin CBE (19 August 1928 – 7 August 2004) was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as the most famous journalist of his day. The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarship to the independent school Christ's Hospital and went on to the London School of Economics, graduating in 1952. After a short spell in a lowly job at the BBC selecting press cuttings for use in programmes, he secured a post as a junior member of the editorial staff of a weekly periodical, Truth, in 1953. Levin reviewed television for The Manchester Guardian and wrote a weekly political column in The Spectator noted for its irreverence and influence on modern parliamentary sketches. During the 1960s he wrote five columns a week for The Daily Mail on any subject that he chose. After a disagreement with the proprietor of the paper over attempted censorship of his column in 1970, Levin moved to The Times where, with one break of just over a year in 1981–82, he remained as resident columnist until his retirement, covering a wide range of topics, both serious and comic. Levin became a well-known broadcaster, first on the weekly satirical television show That Was The Week That Was in the early 1960s, then as a panellist on a musical quiz, Face the Music, and finally in three series of travel programmes in the 1980s. He began to write books in the 1970s, publishing 17 between 1970 and 1998. From the early 1990s, Levin developed Alzheimer's disease, which eventually forced him to give up his regular column in 1997, and to stop writing altogether not long afterwards. (Wikipedia)

About the Author

Bernard Levin was one of the leading journalists of the latter half of the 20th century. In his glittering career he wrote for the Spectator, the Guardian, the Daily Express and Daily Mail, the New Statesman and the New York Times.