Twilight of the Dons : British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism by Colin Kidd howard This fascinating new history argues

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Twilight of the Dons : British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism by Colin Kidd howard This fascinating new history arguesThe rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectual After World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridgethe donsformed an unusual kind of university based, establishment connected intelligentsia. Unlike intellectuals in other countries, often anti establishment outsiders, the dons of Oxbridge enjoyed secure and even cosy connections with those in power. In Twilight of the Dons, Colin Kidd examines the golden age of