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31%OFFDominic Sandbrook - The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination - 9780141979304 - V9780141979304
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The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination

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Description for The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination Paperback. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBLX; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 472.
'Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ... full of love for and fascination with everything from the origins of heavy metal in the metal-bashing industries of the West Midlands to John Lennon's and Damien Hirst's lust for money' Nick Cohen, Observer 'Terrific ... I defy you not to be swept up in a narrative that's as colourful as it is dramatic' - John Preston, Mail on Sunday 'Dramatic, perceptive and often extremely funny' Spectator, Books of the Year Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141979304
SKU
V9780141979304
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-99

About Dominic Sandbrook
Dominic Sandbrook's most recent book for Penguin was Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-79. He is the presenter of a number of highly successful BBC television series, on subjects as diverse as the joys of the Volkswagen and the history of science fiction. He writes reviews and articles principally for the Daily Mail and Sunday ... Read more

Reviews for The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination
It's a great premise, and I dived into, and splashed around in, this book gleefully at first. Here were lucid and often amusing expositions on the work of Lennon and McCartney, Ian Fleming, JRR Tolkien, Christie ... in his books on Britain in the 1950s and 60s, Sandbrook has covered some of this ground before. But he doesn't repeat himself, ... Read more

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