An English Affair, (Paperback)

from Ken-Me-Old-Mate

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo I think you'll either love this book or hate it. If you are English and understand the class system you have a chance of finding out. If you are not English thus whole thing may mystify you.Meticulously documented and annotated th...

from stephengoldenberg

Not just a history of the Profumo affair but more a fascinating picture of the British ruling class at a time of impending great change in British society. It shows just how much we are drifting back towards those times now.

from Eyejaybee

It is now fifty years since John Profumo resigned both as a government Minister and as MP for Stratford upon Avon as a consequence of his involvement with Christine Keeler. His resignation had become unavoidable, not so much because he had had extra-marital sex with Keeler but because he had earl...

from LARA335

A fascinating account,as promised on the cover, of the relationship between sex, class & power in the time of the Profumo scandal. Davenport-Hines, despite swallowing a dictionary, has done his research to show how an age of class-bound deference moved into a sceptical swinging Britain. And shock...

from LARA335

A fascinating account,as promised on the cover, of the relationship between sex, class & power in the time of the Profumo scandal. Davenport-Hines, despite swallowing a dictionary, has done his research to show how an age of class-bound deference moved into a sceptical swinging Britain. And shock...