Mind the Gap
$26.10
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2010
Summary
‘A rollicking account of the class divide in 21st-century Britain.’ - Simon Jenkins, The Sunday Times
In this provocative and ruthlessly frank book, Ferdinand Mount argues that there is a new class divide in Britain which is just as vicious and hard to get rid of as the old one.
Through acute observation and vivid illustration - drawing on every aspect of life from soap operas, speech patterns and gardening to education and the distribution of wealth - he demolishes the illusi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781906021955 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1906021953 |
| Author: | Ferdinand Mount |
| Publisher: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Short Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 128mm x 194mm |
| Audience Age: | 0-0 |
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Critics Review
A book which offers the first real breath of fresh air in Conservative thinking since the Thatcher revolutionaries imposed their own intellectual orthodoxy
A rollicking account of the class divide in 21st-century Britain * Sunday Times *
an excellent book that breaks with tradition… with refreshing humanity. * The Spectator *
A book which offers the first real breath of fresh air in Conservative thinking since the Thatcher revolutionaries imposed their own intellectual orthodoxy
A brilliant book which analyses the ways the working class has been consistently denigrated and disempowered. * London Review of Books *
A splendid book: sparky, persuasive and brave. * Evening Standard *
Beautifully written, deftly argued - and true.
Ferdinand Mount
Ferdinand Mount is a former editor of the TLS and columnist for the Sunday Times. He was head of the Number Ten Policy Unit and director of the Centre for Policy Studies. He is the author of several books including most recently his memoir, Cold Cream, which was a widely acclaimed bestseller. He is married with three grown-up children and lives with his wife in Islington.
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