On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> Can you recommend anything to read that does a good job of summing up the attitudes and reality of that era from a left POV? I was recently trying to explain it to a youngster who mistook a series of photos of Northern England in the 1970s for "the bleakness of Thatcherism." I was trying to sum up that this was a different bleakness, and the more I thought, the more I realized I'd better go learn more details myself.
Ever look at the picture book that came with the vinyl version of The Who's Quadrophenia? Makes Britain of the 60s look suicidally depressing.
Doug