By David Kynaston
ISBN-10: 0802716938
ISBN-13: 9780802716934
As a lot as any nation, England bore the brunt of Germany’s aggression in international struggle II , and was once ravaged in lots of methods on the war’s finish. Celebrated historian David Kynaston has written an completely unique, compellingly readable account of the subsequent six years, within which the rustic indomitably rebuilt itself.
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Integral to the Beveridge vision of the future was a free and comprehensive national health service. The key propagandist, in terms of preparing the intellectual ground for such a development, was undoubtedly Richard Titmuss – a remarkable person who would become (in Edmund Leach’s words) the ‘high priest of the welfare state’. Titmuss was still a young man, the son of a failed farmer-turned-haulier, when he researched and wrote Poverty and Population (1938), which he somehow managed to do while holding down a full-time job as an insurance actuary.
A. Hayek, who was based at the London School of Economics (LSE). ‘His central argument was that a modern economy was a vast system of information flows which signal to everyone indispensable facts about scarcity and opportunity,’ a latter-day follower, Kenneth Minogue, has helpfully summarised. ‘The vitality of modern Western economies, and the best use of scarce resources, rested upon the workers and entrepreneurs having these signals available to them. No planning committee could possibly plug into them.
If the succeeding volumes can sustain this quality, Kynaston will have written the fullest, deepest and most balanced history of our times’ John Campbell, Sunday Telegraph ‘Magnificently refulgent take on the immediate post-war years . . A couple of months before the Attlee landslide, Evelyn Waugh published Brideshead Revisited, that bestselling high-Tory paean to a lost age. A couple of years after Margaret Thatcher took office, a TV adaptation made Waugh’s vision of a sweet and innocent past more popular than ever.