The Labour Party, the DAILY EXPRESS, West Ham United FC, Birmingham University and the opera TOSCA all have one thing in common with the Queen Mother. They all saw the light of day in the year 1900. Author and interviewer Hunter Davies has had the brilliant idea of following our century through these people and institutions, casting vivid light and new perspectives on how we live now - and how we lived then. Why isn't education as valued today? Where are the great philanthropists? Why does work have so little meaning when it's all people do? These are some of the questions provoked by Hunter Davies' interviewees and their candid recollections of being born with the century. Amid huge technological changes, it is the lack of community, most people's belief that they live in an uncaring world, that defines the century's end.
- ISBN10 0751526509
- ISBN13 9780751526509
- Publish Date 4 November 1999 (first published 3 December 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Time Warner Paperbacks
- Format Paperback
- Pages 389
- Language English