Presents the story of how the great political visions of new jerusalem or a second elizabethan age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. This book follows va...Presents the story of how the great political visions of new jerusalem or a second elizabethan age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. This book follows various political and economic stories, and deals with topics which include comedy, cars, sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks.