Corridors Of Power
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work of British political fiction, Corridors of Power chronicles the career of Roger Quaife, a Conservative minister who wages a courageous and ultimately controversial campaign to shift Britain away from nuclear weapons during the Cold War era. C. P. Snow — who famously coined the phrase that became this novel's title — draws on his own insider experience of Whitehall and Westminster to present an unflinching portrait of ambition, compromise, and moral courage at the highest levels of government. The narrative unfolds through the measured, perceptive eyes of Lewis Eliot, the recurring narrator of Snow's celebrated Strangers and Brothers sequence, giving the story an intimate yet authoritative weight. Written with understated precision and quiet suspense, the novel argues that political idealism is always at war with the machinery of power, and that the price of conviction in public life is rarely paid by the powerful alone.
Author: C. P. Snow
Format: Paperback
Published: 1972, Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work of British political fiction, Corridors of Power chronicles the career of Roger Quaife, a Conservative minister who wages a courageous and ultimately controversial campaign to shift Britain away from nuclear weapons during the Cold War era. C. P. Snow — who famously coined the phrase that became this novel's title — draws on his own insider experience of Whitehall and Westminster to present an unflinching portrait of ambition, compromise, and moral courage at the highest levels of government. The narrative unfolds through the measured, perceptive eyes of Lewis Eliot, the recurring narrator of Snow's celebrated Strangers and Brothers sequence, giving the story an intimate yet authoritative weight. Written with understated precision and quiet suspense, the novel argues that political idealism is always at war with the machinery of power, and that the price of conviction in public life is rarely paid by the powerful alone.