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Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics: A Sideways Look at Twentieth-Century London [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x156 mm, kaal: 706 g, 120 Illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2015
  • Kirjastus: Amberley Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 144565119X
  • ISBN-13: 9781445651194
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x156 mm, kaal: 706 g, 120 Illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2015
  • Kirjastus: Amberley Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 144565119X
  • ISBN-13: 9781445651194
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Märksõnad:
I love London society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. An Ideal Husband, OSCAR WILDE

Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics is based on the popular London history website nickelinthemachine.com

Another Nickel in the Machine pretty much justifies the internets existence all on its own DANNY BAKER

Brilliantly researched STEPHEN FRY

Entertaining and engagingly written, Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics explores fascinating stories from London in the twentieth century. From the return to South London of local hero Charlie Chaplin to the protests that blighted the Miss World competition in 1970, the book covers the events and personalities that reflect the glamorous, scandalous, political and subversive place that London was and is today. Learn about, among many other captivating tales, exactly where and how the spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean spent their last ever day in London, the grisly murder of Stan the Spiv and the unlikely death of a defrocked girl-crazed priest. A cast of suffragettes, fascists, nancy-boys, showgirls, prostitutes, terrorists, Nippies and beauty queens features in stories containing a myriad of unexpected tangents and untold facts that cover the width and breadth of the worlds greatest city.
Author's Note 5(2)
Chapter 1 The Empire Theatre on Leicester Square and the Arrest of Bobby Britt
7(12)
Chapter 2 The Pop-Artist Pauline Boty and the Anti-Uglies
19(15)
Chapter 3 The Day the Traitors Burgess and Maclean Left Town
34(14)
Chapter 4 Warren Street, Spivs, and the Gruesome Murder of Stanley Setty
48(12)
Chapter 5 The Protests at the 1970 Miss World Competition and its Motley Crew of Judges
60(15)
Chapter 6 The Cafe de Paris and the Trial of Elvira Barney
75(12)
Chapter 7 The Deaths of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon in Harry Nilsson's Bed
87(9)
Chapter 8 Mary Richardson -- Suffragette, Iconoclast and Fascist
96(19)
Chapter 9 How the GLC Almost Destroyed Covent Garden
115(9)
Chapter 10 When Lord Haw-Haw Met Mr Albert Pierrepoint, Albeit Briefly
124(14)
Chapter 11 Christine Keeler and the Fight at the Flamingo All-Nighter
138(16)
Chapter 12 The Blind Beggar and the Death of George Cornell by Ronnie Kray
154(6)
Chapter 13 When James Earl Ray Came to Earl's Court
160(10)
Chapter 14 The Death of Benny Hill and the Windmill Theatre in Soho
170(13)
Chapter 15 When Fifty Hoxton Schoolchildren Met Charlie Chaplin at the Ritz
183(13)
Chapter 16 The Rise and Fall of Colin Wilson and how he Met Marilyn Monroe
196(11)
Chapter 17 David Hemmings, Blow-Up and the Red Buildings on Stockwell Road
207(10)
Chapter 18 Two `Perfect' Women -- Prunella Stack and Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
217(12)
Chapter 19 Mary Quant, the Mini-Skirt and the Chelsea Palace on the King's Road
229(13)
Chapter 20 Winifred Atwell -- The Honky Tonk Woman
242(8)
Chapter 21 Kempton Bunton and Britain's Greatest Art Heist
250(12)
Chapter 22 The Prostitutes' Padre and the Lyons' Tea-Shop Nippies
262(16)
Chapter 23 The Hippy Squat at 144 Piccadilly
278(15)
Chapter 24 The Men's Dress Reform Party, `Bare-Leg Tennis' and Little Miss Poker Face
293(11)
Notes 304(6)
Selected Bibliography 310(2)
Index 312
Rob Baker is a former TV producer and the writer of Another Nickel in the Machine, a popular blog revealing the most fascinating stories about London in the twentieth century. He also writes and edits for Flashbak.com.