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It’s the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes, brilliant music, easy sex, eternal youth, the eyes of everybody, everyone's first thought, the top of the world, right here, right now: Swinging London.

Shawn Levy has a genius for unearthing the secret history of popular culture. The Los Angeles Times called King of Comedy, his biography of Jerry Lewis, 'a model of what a celebrity bio ought to be-smart, knowing, insightful, often funny, full of fascinating insiders' stories,' and the Boston Globe declared that Rat Pack Confidential 'evokes the time in question with the power of a novel, as well as James Ellroy's American Tabloid and better by far than Don DeLillo's Un

Ready Steady Go The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London

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      Publisher: Crown
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/07/2003
      ISBN13: 9780767905886, 978-0767905886
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      Book Synopsis
      It’s the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes, brilliant music, easy sex, eternal youth, the eyes of everybody, everyone's first thought, the top of the world, right here, right now: Swinging London.

      Shawn Levy has a genius for unearthing the secret history of popular culture. The Los Angeles Times called King of Comedy, his biography of Jerry Lewis, 'a model of what a celebrity bio ought to be-smart, knowing, insightful, often funny, full of fascinating insiders' stories,' and the Boston Globe declared that Rat Pack Confidential 'evokes the time in question with the power of a novel, as well as James Ellroy's American Tabloid and better by far than Don DeLillo's Un

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