Download or read book The Neophiliacs written by Christopher Booker and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the mid-1950s, on a wave of technological advances, Western civilisation moved into a period of prosperity dwarfing anything that had ever gone before. How golden was this age of affluence? How did it come to spawn a legend?