# The Great British Dream Factory

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- Book: [The Great British Dream Factory](https://www.bookquiver.com/dominic-sandbrook/the-great-british-dream-factory) ([The Great British Dream Factory.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dominic-sandbrook/the-great-british-dream-factory.md))
- Authors: [Dominic Sandbrook](https://www.bookquiver.com/dominic-sandbrook)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-930-4
- Pages: 688
- Published: 2016-09-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing base is a shadow of its former self; the Royal Navy has been reduced to a skeleton. In military, diplomatic and economic terms, we no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim superpower status: our popular culture. This is a book about the success and the meaning of Britain's modern popular culture, from Bond and the Beatles to heavy metal and Coronation Street , from the Angry Young Men to Harry Potter, from Damien Hirst to The X Factor .