Corridors Of Power
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, tears along folds and corners of jacket; clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Good.
At the heart of British political life, where ambition and principle collide in the rarefied air of Westminster, Corridors of Power places its protagonist Roger Quaife — a Conservative minister wrestling with a profound moral and political crisis. Quaife stakes his career, his marriage, and his reputation on a single, dangerous conviction: that Britain must abandon its independent nuclear deterrent. C.P. Snow charts this man's ascent and unravelling with the cool, unflinching eye of an insider who understands that in the world of high politics, idealism is the most treacherous weapon of all. The ninth installment in Snow's monumental Strangers and Brothers sequence, this novel gave the English language one of its most enduring phrases, a testament to the author's penetrating insight into institutional power. Snow writes with the authority of a man who has walked those very corridors — as scientist, civil servant, and life peer — lending the narrative a documentary authenticity rare in political fiction. His prose is measured and precise, stripping away the theatre of democracy to reveal the machinery beneath, leaving the reader to wonder whether any individual conscience can survive the grinding weight of power.
Author: C.P. Snow
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Macmillan
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, tears along folds and corners of jacket; clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Good.
At the heart of British political life, where ambition and principle collide in the rarefied air of Westminster, Corridors of Power places its protagonist Roger Quaife — a Conservative minister wrestling with a profound moral and political crisis. Quaife stakes his career, his marriage, and his reputation on a single, dangerous conviction: that Britain must abandon its independent nuclear deterrent. C.P. Snow charts this man's ascent and unravelling with the cool, unflinching eye of an insider who understands that in the world of high politics, idealism is the most treacherous weapon of all. The ninth installment in Snow's monumental Strangers and Brothers sequence, this novel gave the English language one of its most enduring phrases, a testament to the author's penetrating insight into institutional power. Snow writes with the authority of a man who has walked those very corridors — as scientist, civil servant, and life peer — lending the narrative a documentary authenticity rare in political fiction. His prose is measured and precise, stripping away the theatre of democracy to reveal the machinery beneath, leaving the reader to wonder whether any individual conscience can survive the grinding weight of power.