Re: Nonfiction, postwar sources for course

Sharon Michalove, Editor, H-Albion (mlove@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
Tue, 19 Dec 1995 20:56:51 -0600

Date: Tue, 19 Dec 95 16:22:11 EST
From: rmdouglas <ST000198@BROWNVM.brown.edu>

The book AMONG THE THUGS was by Bill Buford of Newsweek; WIGAN PIER
REVISITED was by Beatrix Campbell. I personally would have reservations
about assigning the latter on account of the sheer relentlessness of
its assault on Thatcherism: its author, a Communist Party of Great
Britain member, has a very obvious axe to grind. A much better book,
the more useful as a teaching tool on account of the fact that its
author, a Tory Wet dismissed from Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet in 1980,
is careful to highlight the differences between 'one-nation'
Conservatism and the right-wing reaction against it, is Ian Gilmour's
DANCING WITH DOGMA: BRITAIN UNDER THATCHERISM.

R.M. Douglas
Box N/History
Brown U.