A01=Charles Jennings
Author_Charles Jennings
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Product details
- ISBN 9780750943567
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jun 2007
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1936, Henry 'Chips' Channon gave a lavish dinner for King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at his house in Belgrave Square. Feasting on blinis, caviare, sole and beef, served by the ruthlessly-drilled precision of Chips' staff, it was a vivid demonstration of just how far the Americans had percolated high society. The British aristocracy, impoverished by death duties, agricultural collapse and higher taxation, as well as morally shattered by the First World War, could only look on. It was as if the world had been turned upside down. As Lady Londonderry observed, it seemed as if London was 'being run by an American syndicate'. What had happened to bring about this change? How had the Americans become so powerful, so rich, so over here? "Them and Us" is a story of social upheaval, of the transformation which took place when British high society - that bastion against the forces of the New - gave in to America. A lively mix of anecdote and social history, Charles Jennings' new book brings to life the most striking characters of the time and the extravagant, high-voltage period in which they lived, giving a real sense of their follies, dramas, tragedies and longings.
Charles Jennings is a writer and journalist. His previous books include The Fast Set, Up North, People Like Us, Fathers' Race, Greenwich and Faintheart. His features have been published in the Telegraph, the Sunday Times magazine, The Times, the Observer and others. He is married with two children and lives in London.
