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Austerity Britain.(Brief article)(Book review)
Drawing on a remarkable array of diaries, letters, memoirs, and surveys, Kynaston assembles a polyphonic history of a pivotal time. In July, 1945, Winston Churchill was swept from office in an electoral landslide, his wartime leadership already overshadowed by domestic worries like jobs and housing--seven hundred and fifty thousand dwellings had been damaged in the war, and six million lacked indoor toilets. Kynaston's account of the six years of Labour Government that ...
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