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About Dominic Sandbrook
See more books from this AuthorDavid Edgar challenges an entertaining analysis of a decade of great change
May 09 2012 | Read Full Review of Seasons in the SunConsidering the austerity we are experiencing today – and there are many echoes of the Seventies in our present situation – this charming, insightful and thoroughly compelling book is very timely indeed.
May 01 2012 | Read Full Review of Seasons in the SunSandbrook is now a brand: each big book covers a small period in minute detail.
Apr 20 2012 | Read Full Review of Seasons in the SunWhen he joined the cabinet in 1940, Bevin said that, just as William Gladstone had wanted to remain at the Treasury for 40 years, he wanted to remain minister of labour and national service for 40 years – and so he did, in a way, his philosophy being accepted as much by the Conservative Party...
Apr 26 2012 | Read Full Review of Seasons in the SunMost curiously of all, he tells us in the Acknowledgements: “Writing about Harold Wilson, a pudgy, shabby Little Englander locked away with his fears and his fantasies, I increasingly wondered whether, in fact, we were the same person.” It is perhaps a pity Sandbrook does not make more effort to ...
Jun 22 2012 | Read Full Review of Seasons in the SunBook Review: Leaders of the Opposition: from Churchill to Cameron → Book Review: Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979.
Jun 24 2012 | Read Full Review of Seasons in the Sunwhile inflation soared and terrorism gripped the mainland, Wilson was completely under the control of his political advisor Marcia Williams, who – apparently anticipating Malcolm Tucker by about 30 years – called Wilson ‘a little cunt’ in front of his officials (p.
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