WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Pub
lished to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An Engl
ish Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolu
tion. Britain in 1963 - Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservativ
e government, dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above all, old-fashioned mo
rality.
