The Five Giants: A Biography Of Welfare State Nicholas Timmins Harpercollins Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

An Accessible And Entertaining Narrative History Of The Establishment Development Unravelling British Welfare State – Now Fully Revised To Cover Blair’s First Term Lively Writing In Style Peter Hennessy ‘Giant Want Giant Disease Ignorance Squalor Insidious Idleness “Which Destroys Wealth Corrupts Men” These Were Evils Be Vanquished By Postwar Reconstruction Britain Timmins’ Book Recaptures Brilliantly High Hopes Period Which Began Created Conveys Cranky Zeal Its Inventor William Beveridge Onslaught On Five Giants Was Work Gargantuan Programmes That Made Up Core Beveridge’s Social Security Health Education Housing A Policy Full Employment It Is Notoriously Difficult Write About Such Subjects Keep Reader Reading But Timmins Performs Wonders Clarity Anecdote Human Detail Finds Chosen Level Somewhere Between Gibbon’s ‘Decline Fall Roman Empire’ ‘1066 All That’…There Something Very Moving His Rhetoric Transformation ‘The Giants’ Will Stir Strong Emotions Impossible Not Respond Personal Terms Part So Many Our Histories Woven Into Day-To-Day Texture Lives ’ Fiona Maccarthy Observer Originally Only Supposed Sort Out Web Insurance Services Stifling Recounts How Original Vision Campaign Blossomed Enormously Inspire Country At War With Hope Peace Might Bring Comfort For Tale Hums Energies Passions Activists Dreamers Ordinary Britons Seethes Vendettas Forced Compromises Arguments Money Awkward Contradictions Noisy Rows Fervent Perseverance Nicholas Who Has Seen Works Every Day Last Two Decades Assesses Key Personalities Problems Victories Defeats Anecdotal Witty Illuminating Study From 1940S Present Σελίδες: 720 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm