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Who says Britain is dead? Certainly not American historian and anglophile George L. Bernstein. The New Orleans university professor believes we Britons are too pessimistic by half, and what many of us regard as symptoms of decline he sees as strengths. Youth culture is not necessarily synonymous with yobbism, he says. Immigration has given the nation a dose of multiculturalism that it needed, and the changing economy continues to provide us all with better standards of living. Although Bernstein's focus is on post-war Britain, he reveals that the country has been glum about its own successes since at least the 1880s. The newspapers of that time were full of gloomy talk about decline just as today's are. Bernstein writes in a warm, erudite way and illustrates his points with plenty of facts and figures. After reading his book you can't help but agree that Britain still keeps the home fires very much burning. (Kirkus UK)
