Ready, Steady, Go!
Subtitle: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
Publisher: Broadway
Published: July 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780767905886
Subjects: Social Science; Social History; History - General History; Sociology; Europe - Great Britain - General; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / Popular Culture
First sentence: The air, the buildings, the clothing, the faces, the mood. Britain in the mid-1950s was everything it had been for decades, even centuries: world power; sire of glorious intellectual, aesthetic and political traditions; gritty vanquisher of the Nazis; civilizing docent to whippersnapper America; bastion of decency, decorum and the done thing.