Buy this book on-line JENNINGS, CHARLES: : THEM AND US: THE AMERICAN INVASION OF BRITISH HIGH SOCIETYUK.STROUD,GLOUCESTERSHIRE.ALAN SUTTON PUBLISHING LIMITED,2007. ISBN 9780750943567.
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On 11 June 1936,Henry 'Chips' Channon gave a lavish dinner for King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at his house in Belgrave Square.It was a vivid demonstration of just how far the Americans had percolated high society and reached the heart of Britain's social elite.The British aristocracy, impoverished by death duties,agricultural collapse and higher taxation,and with their morale shattered by the First World War,could only look on.As Lady Londonderry observed,it seemed as if London was 'being run by an American syndicate'.Anglophile America was at its most potent and influential.But what had happened to bring about this change? How had the Americans become so powerful,so rich,so over here?
Between 1880 and 1939 the two great forces of the western world collided.'Them and Us' is the story of that social upheaval.It is a tale of how the United States sold its heiresses into enobled slavery at the turn of the century,found the tables turned around the time of the First World War,and ended up subjugating smart society to the 'Almighty Dollar' in the 1930s.It is about prejudice,fear, bitchiness,arrivistes,fine architecture, low life,ostentation and sheer incomprehension.It is about the Old World's dread of the power of New America and the New World's longing for the historical status of the Old.
Imaginative,well-researched and entertaining,'Them and Us' strikes a lively balance between anecdote and social history.It brings to life the most striking characters of the time - Emerald Cunard,Lord Curzon,Consuelo Vanderbilt - the extravagant,high-voltage period in which they lived,and their follies,dramas, tragedies and longings.
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