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The Long Week-End: A Social History Of Great Britian
The Long Week-End A Social History Of Great Britian Author:Robert Graves Part Two Of Two Parts This brilliant survey of the inter-war period in Great Britain not only includes every imaginable surface aspect of the era, from current plays and novels being seen and read in London, to the latest dance fads and fashion imported from America, but also discusses the germinal and international influences at work in politi... more »cs, business, science and the church. Short hair and short skirts arrived during the '20s; "New Education"--what was called "Progressive Education" in America--became a growing concern; the British Labor Party became respectable at last, and as the '30s wore on, public acknowledgement of the possibility of war was feverishly avoided in a whirl of activities. "A near-breathless narrative, its scope through artful selection and arrangement of facts, is constantly enriched by the wit of its authors." (Publisher's Source)« less