Born in Shropshire ten days before the October 1974 election, Dominic Sandbrook was educated at Oxford, St Andrews and Cambridge. He is the author of three hugely acclaimed books on post-war Britain: Never Had It So Good, White Heat and State of Emergency, and two books on modern American history, Eugene McCarthy and Mad as Hell. A prolific reviewer and columnist, he writes regularly for the Sunday Times, Daily Mail, New Statesman and BBC History.
Sandbrook has created a specific style of narrative history,
blending high politics, social change and popular culture ...
always readable and assured ... Anyone who genuinely believes we
have never been so badly governed should read this splendid
book
*Sunday Times*
[Sandbrook] has a remarkable ability to turn a sow's ear into a
sulk purse. His subject is depressing, but the book itself is a joy
... [it] benefits from an exceptional cast of characters ... As a
storyteller, Sandbrook is, without doubt, superb ... [he] is an
engaging history capable of impressive insight ... When discussing
politics, Sandbrook is masterful ... Seasons in the Sun is a
familiar story, yet seldom has it been told with such verve
*Seven*
[A] brilliant historian ... I had never fully appreciated what a
truly horrible period it was until reading Sandbrook ... You can
see all these strange individuals - Thatcher, Rotten, Larkin, Benn
- less as free agents expressing their own thoughts, than as the
inevitable consequence of the economic and political decline which
Sandbrook so skilfully depicts
*Spectator*
Nuanced ... Sandbrook has rummaged deep into the cultural life of
the era to remind us how rich it was, from Bowie to Dennis Potter,
Martin Amis to William Golding
*The Times*
Sharply and fluently written ... entertaining ... By making you
quite nostalgic for the present, Sandbrook has done a public
service
*Evening Standard*
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