{"product_id":"9780802719645","title":"Family Britain, 1951-1957","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFamily Britain \u003c\/i\u003econtinues David Kynaston’s groundbreaking series, telling as never before the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs in his highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eAusterity Britain\u003c\/i\u003e, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices to drive his narrative of 1950s Britain. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as rationing gradually gives way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her children in Chingford; the self-absorbed civil servant Henry St John perfects the art of grumbling. Well-known figures are encountered on the way, such as Doris Lessing (joining and later leaving the Communist Party), John Arlott (sticking up on \u003ci\u003eAny Questions? \u003c\/i\u003efor the rights of homosexuals), and comic-strip hero Roy of the Rovers (making his goal-scoring debut for Melchester). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this colorful, unfolding tapestry, great national events—the Tories’ return to power, the death of George VI , the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the Suez Crisis—jostle alongside everything that gave Britain in the 1950s its distinctive flavor: Butlin’s holiday camps, \u003ci\u003eHancock’s Half-Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, Ekco television sets, Davy Crockett, skiffle, and teddy boys. Deeply researched, David Kynaston’s \u003ci\u003eFamily Britain \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an unrivaled take on British society as it started to move away from the painful hardships of the 1940s toward domestic ease and affluence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118771093744,"sku":"9780802719645","price":33.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802719645_p0.jpg?v=1763738917","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802719645","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}