Mind the Gap

Description

Product ID:	9781906021955
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	CN
Title:	Mind the Gap
Authors:	Author: Ferdinand Mount
Page Count:	320
Subjects:	Social groups, communities and identities, Social groups, United Kingdom, Great Britain
Description:	Select Guide Rating A political book for anyone who wants to understand where Britain is today in terms of class. ''A rollicking account of the class divide in 21st-century Britain.'' - Simon Jenkins, The Sunday Times In this provocative and ruthlessly frank book, Ferdinand Mount argues that there is a new class divide in Britain which is just as vicious and hard to get rid of as the old one. Through acute observation and vivid illustration - drawing on every aspect of life from soap operas, speech patterns and gardening to education and the distribution of wealth - he demolishes the illusion that we live in a classless society and shows how the worst-off in Britain today are more culturally deprived than their parents or grandparents. The author''s solutions, like his explanations of what has gone wrong, are original, surprising and unsparing to intellectuals and politicians of all parties.
Imprint Name:	Short Books Ltd
Publisher Name:	Octopus Publishing Group
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2010-02-04

Weight	234 g
Dimensions	198 × 131 × 25 mm