ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1965
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

U dobrom stanju

Publisher : Hodder and Stoughton; First Edition (January 1, 1965)
Language : English
Hardcover : 736 pages
ISBN-10 : 0340001992
ISBN-13 : 978-0340001998
Item Weight : 2.05 pounds

Anatomy of Britain was a book written by Anthony Sampson and published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1962. The book is an examination of the ruling classes of the United Kingdom, looking at the holders of political, bureaucratic, and financial power. He completely rewrote the book over four decades, thus enabling changes in power structures to be considered over time. Sampson died in 2004, shortly after Who Runs This Place? was published. The published versions were:

Anatomy of Britain (1962)
Anatomy of Britain today (1965)
The New Anatomy of Britain (1971)
Changing Anatomy of Britain (1982)
The Essential Anatomy of Britain: Democracy in Crisis (1992) online free
Who Runs This Place? The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century (2004)

Anthony Sampson, the author, journalist, broadcaster and anatomist of Britain, who died on Saturday aged 78, made his name in the early 1960s with his book The Anatomy of Britain.

The book was a bestseller which ran through many editions, republished under titles which showed a gift for elegant variation, not to say, in the end, a certain desperation: Anatomy of Britain Today, The New Anatomy of Britain and The Changing Anatomy of Britain.

The original book`s theme was one which caught the mood of the age. A few years earlier, Henry Fairlie had borrowed, and popularised, the idea of `the Establishment` from AJP Taylor. This was Sampson`s text.
The theory went that, despite its technical democracy, the country was still run by an establishment which was little more than a series of interlocking cliques and old-boy networks. Birth, class, rank, education and accent still counted in Britain in a way that they did not in other countries.

There was enough truth in this to strike a chord. It was not very long before Sampson`s thesis appeared to be justified by the choice of the Earl of Home (Sir Alec Douglas-Home) as Tory leader and Prime Minister, and Iain Macleod denounced the `magic circle` of Etonians which still ran the Tory party.

Shortly after that, England acquired a new Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, and the Conservatives replaced the patrician Sir Alec with Edward Heath. To blame Sampson for these consequences would be absurd: his book did not create the spirit of an age, but identified and reflected it.