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The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State
Nicholas Timmins
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Description for The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State
Paperback. An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised to cover Blair's first term. Lively writing in the style of Peter Hennessy. Num Pages: 720 pages, 22 b/w plates, With index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBTB; JFF; JKSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 35. Weight in Grams: 502.
An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised to cover Blair's first term. Lively writing in the style of Peter Hennessy. `Giant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. And the insidious Giant Idleness, which destroys wealth and corrupts men . These were evils to be vanquished by the postwar reconstruction of Britain. Timmins' book recaptures brilliantly the high hopes of the period in which the Welfare State began to be created, and conveys the cranky zeal of its inventor, William Beveridge. The ... Read more
An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised to cover Blair's first term. Lively writing in the style of Peter Hennessy. `Giant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. And the insidious Giant Idleness, which destroys wealth and corrupts men . These were evils to be vanquished by the postwar reconstruction of Britain. Timmins' book recaptures brilliantly the high hopes of the period in which the Welfare State began to be created, and conveys the cranky zeal of its inventor, William Beveridge. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007102648
SKU
V9780007102648
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99-3
About Nicholas Timmins
Nicholas Timmins has been Public Policy Editor of the Financial Times since 1996. Before that he was with the Independent for a decade from its foundation., working variously as its health and social services correspondent , politcal correspondent and its public policy editor. He previously held similar posts at The Times. He has also worked for the Press Association and ... Read more
Reviews for The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State
`A splendid book - knowledgeable, readable and fair.' Sunday Telegraph `A tour de force - thoroughly researched and vividly written...a masterpiece.' Sunday Times `Extraordinarily comprehensive without ever being incomprehensible.' Roy Hattersley, Independent