Corridors of Power: C. P. Snow: Amazon.com: Books Corridors of Power Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Next Special Offers and Product Promotions Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here , or download a FREE Kindle Reading App . New York Times best sellers Browse the New York Times best sellers in popular categories like Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Books and more. See more Product Details Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,698,843 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) Customer Reviews By C. L Wilson on March 8, 2006 Apparently, it was Snow who coined the phrase "corridors of power" in an earlier book. This one is all about English politics, and the machinations that go on in trying to change policy. I suspect it was far more riveting to an English reader who knows more about the workings of Parliament than I do. Rather dry, and involved, with many, many characters.

Only in the last fifty pages or so is there any semblance of suspense. As usual, Lewis Eliot is the narrator and at the heart of matters. Exactly how he got to be such a confidante of Roger Quaife, who seems to be a Minister in another department, I never could figure out. Snow, I suspect, lived these times and questions, but perhaps he was too close to see that his reader might need a little more explanation. Quaife is trying to disengage England from the nuclear arms race, a thoroughly admirable position, but one which would have required Parliament to own up to the fact that England was no longer a super power, a hard pill to swallow indeed. Many times, throughout the book, one or another character expresses the thought that no man can really do much of anything, that government will go on in its own way no matter who is at the helm. If you like to read about power and politics, all the weavings in and out, and subplots, the goings on behind the top, this book would probably rate high with you. I do not think it Snow's best. Once again, he is too detached. Too close to the heartbeat of things.

On rereading this six years later, I see that like "The Affair", and "The Conscience of the Rich", this one too is about reputation and honor and conscience, very much so. A running theme with Snow apparently. And yet another one that is not about Lewis Eliot at all, but about other characters and arenas of life. I do not disagree with my earlier review, but now I see the distance Snow has chosen. In "The Affair", the plot revolved around Howard and Cambridge, in "Conscience", about the March family, and the world of the truly wealthy, and now, the 3rd, about Roger Quaife and the workings of Parliament. Eliot, as a character, is really only the narrator of all the events and - way too much so - the dissector of all the characters' natures, reasons for acting, etc. That got a bit much. Too intricate, far too much delving into the various psyches. But his emphasis on the nature of the times, and the questions and events being too much for any one person to alter, certainly rings true today also. How we all feel helpless to change the way history is being played out.

It would seem we are the product of our times; not that time is a product of our actions. Things just march inexorably on. Relentless. Anthony Hopkins played Quaife in the dismal BBC series, because Snow kept referring to him as Pierre, and Hopkins played Pierre in the marvelous "War and Peace". By Timothy J Hurst on May 31, 2015 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase If you haven't read any of the Strangers and Brothers series, you shouldn't start with this book, because they're sequential, and not everyone's cup of tea. I suggest you try GEORGE PASSANT first, the first one that C.P.Snow wrote, although chronologically second. You'll know by the end of the second chapter whether it's for you. I really like the series - it follows an Englishman, Lewis Elliot, from his childhood in the 1920s to his old age, looking at various public and private events, set in a universily college, war, civil service, houses of the rich etc. The style is perceptive, gentle, almost flat.

3.0 out of 5 stars too much in the dining room, not enough in the corridors By Andrew Rudalevige on February 24, 2007 This book concerns the efforts of an ambitious Conservative politician on the rise - at the start of the book, he becomes a Minister in a newly formed Cabinet. With his power, he wants to prevent Britain's clinging to an independent nuclear deterrent in the late 1950s (Suez makes a brief appearance). Some interesting questions are raised as to whether the moral rightness of this goal -- of which Snow, channeling the scientists who opposed even the use of the bomb at Hiroshima, clearly has no doubt -- can/should be compromised in the interests of furthering the minister's political rise (at the summit of which he can, presumably, do more good) and, too briefly, in the interaction of public opinion with 'informed' expert opinion. The accounts of the English civil service and its interactions with elected officials are excellently-drawn. But as a guide to the intracacies of parliamentary procedure, this book is a bit of a letdown.

Much of the action takes place at dinner parties at various aristocratic homes, and the real focus is less on the policy questions than on various characters' love lives. Reason, not emotion, is Snow's strong suit in description and narrative, and so while his language -- at once crisp and dense -- often has a real appeal, it does not move one to care as much about the characters as one is probably supposed to. All in all, an interesting read, but not an essential one. The policy issues, by the way, were real: if they are of interest, they are better explained (and, despite being more or less contemporary with _Corridors_, in a less dated manner) in Richard Neustadt's forgotten gem "Alliance Politics" and the report on the UK's "Skybolt" nuclear deterrent Neustadt wrote for John F Kennedy in 1963, now declassified and published by Cornell University Press. Corridors of power (Book, 1964) [WorldCat.org] The E-mail message field is required. Please enter the message.

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The game being played by Roger is that he seeks the ministry held by Lord Gilbey. Lewis and Margaret become the guests of a great hostess, Diana Skidmore, at Basset, Diana's house in Hampshire. The subject of Roger's wife's brother comes up during the weekend. Roger claims that in observing etiquette, truth has suffered. Just following the weekend, Lewis and Margaret are invited to see Douglas and Mary Osbaldiston. Douglas is a highly placed fellow civil servant. Lord Gilbey becomes very ill. Lewis and others visit at the clinic. It is believed that whatever the physical outcome of Lord Gilbey's circumstances, Roger will get his post, unless he has damaged his chances in defending his wife Caro's brother Sammikins. While visiting Lord Gilbey Lewis earns that he has received a telegram from a former acquaintance of Lewis, Ronald Porson. When Lewis travels to see Porson and complain of his act, he is stopped by the obvious drunken state of the man. Later Lord Gilbey receives the news that he is being removed from office. Roger Quaife is appointed to take his place. Francis Getliffe is a radical through conscience. Read more › Was this review helpful to you?

Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. 5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, thoughtful read. May 31 2015 By Timothy J Hurst - Published on Amazon.com Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase If you haven't read any of the Strangers and Brothers series, you shouldn't start with this book, because they're sequential, and not everyone's cup of tea. I suggest you try GEORGE PASSANT first, the first one that C.P.Snow wrote, although chronologically second. You'll know by the end of the second chapter whether it's for you. I really like the series - it follows an Englishman, Lewis Elliot, from his childhood in the 1920s to his old age, looking at various public and private events, set in a universily college, war, civil service, houses of the rich etc. The style is perceptive, gentle, almost flat. 5.0 out of 5 stars This volume of C. P. Snow's series about ... Aug. 1 2014 By Sydney Carton - Published on Amazon.com Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase This volume of C.

P. Snow's series about power and corruption provides an interesting view of the workings of the civil service in the post-war period. It can almost be seen as a serious version of "Yes, Minister". 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful 3.0 out of 5 stars no title March 8 2006 By C. L Wilson - Published on Amazon.com Format: Paperback Apparently, it was Snow who coined the phrase "corridors of power" in an earlier book. This one is all about English politics, and the machinations that go on in trying to change policy. I suspect it was far more riveting to an English reader who knows more about the workings of Parliament than I do. Rather dry, and involved, with many, many characters. Only in the last fifty pages or so is there any semblance of suspense. As usual, Lewis Eliot is the narrator and at the heart of matters. Exactly how he got to be such a confidante of Roger Quaife, who seems to be a Minister in another department, I never could figure out. Snow, I suspect, lived these times and questions, but perhaps he was too close to see that his reader might need a little more explanation.

Quaife is trying to disengage England from the nuclear arms race, a thoroughly admirable position, but one which would have required Parliament to own up to the fact that England was no longer a super power, a hard pill to swallow indeed. Many times, throughout the book, one or another character expresses the thought that no man can really do much of anything, that government will go on in its own way no matter who is at the helm. If you like to read about power and politics, all the weavings in and out, and subplots, the goings on behind the top, this book would probably rate high with you. I do not think it Snow's best. Once again, he is too detached. Too close to the heartbeat of things. On rereading this six years later, I see that like "The Affair", and "The Conscience of the Rich", this one too is about reputation and honor and conscience, very much so. A running theme with Snow apparently. And yet another one that is not about Lewis Eliot at all, but about other characters and arenas of life. I do not disagree with my earlier review, but now I see the distance Snow has chosen.

In "The Affair", the plot revolved around Howard and Cambridge, in "Conscience", about the March family, and the world of the truly wealthy, and now, the 3rd, about Roger Quaife and the workings of Parliament. Eliot, as a character, is really only the narrator of all the events and - way too much so - the dissector of all the characters' natures, reasons for acting, etc. That got a bit much. Too intricate, far too much delving into the various psyches. But his emphasis on the nature of the times, and the questions and events being too much for any one person to alter, certainly rings true today also. How we all feel helpless to change the way history is being played out. It would seem we are the product of our times; not that time is a product of our actions. Things just march inexorably on. Relentless. Anthony Hopkins played Quaife in the dismal BBC series, because Snow kept referring to him as Pierre, and Hopkins played Pierre in the marvelous "War and Peace". 3.0 out of 5 stars too much in the dining room, not enough in the corridors Feb.

24 2007 By Andrew Rudalevige - Published on Amazon.com Format: Paperback This book concerns the efforts of an ambitious Conservative politician on the rise - at the start of the book, he becomes a Minister in a newly formed Cabinet. With his power, he wants to prevent Britain's clinging to an independent nuclear deterrent in the late 1950s (Suez makes a brief appearance). Some interesting questions are raised as to whether the moral rightness of this goal -- of which Snow, channeling the scientists who opposed even the use of the bomb at Hiroshima, clearly has no doubt -- can/should be compromised in the interests of furthering the minister's political rise (at the summit of which he can, presumably, do more good) and, too briefly, in the interaction of public opinion with 'informed' expert opinion. The accounts of the English civil service and its interactions with elected officials are excellently-drawn. But as a guide to the intracacies of parliamentary procedure, this book is a bit of a letdown. Much of the action takes place at dinner parties at various aristocratic homes, and the real focus is less on the policy questions than on various characters' love lives.

Reason, not emotion, is Snow's strong suit in description and narrative, and so while his language -- at once crisp and dense -- often has a real appeal, it does not move one to care as much about the characters as one is probably supposed to. All in all, an interesting read, but not an essential one. The policy issues, by the way, were real: if they are of interest, they are better explained (and, despite being more or less contemporary with _Corridors_, in a less dated manner) in Richard Neustadt's forgotten gem "Alliance Politics" and the report on the UK's "Skybolt" nuclear deterrent Neustadt wrote for John F Kennedy in 1963, now declassified and published by Cornell University Press.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful 2.0 out of 5 stars Snow as an outsider, describing times before and after World War 2 June 26 2010 By Rerevisionist - Published on Amazon.com Format: Paperback This book is probably the best-known of a series of novels by Snow, which he wrote almost after the manner of Dickens, about one every couple of years, starting in 1940 with 'Strangers and Brothers'. He gave the same name to his series of I believe eleven titles. (Snow got off to a false start with a detective novel; then a story about science fraud, which H G Wells liked - Snow had a science background, but couldn't or wouldn't make a career of it). Snow was something of a poor boy made good, as Muggeridge pointed out - a similar type to Melyvn Bragg and Clive James. Ambitious, and certainly not willing to rock the boat. In my view, his novels give a highly realistic picture of conventional life in Britain both before and after the Second World War.

Even if Snow ever harboured dangerous thoughts, he would not have put them into his novels, except in the actions of flawed characters, which of course his novels have. (E.g. a convinced technical Communist; an unsatisfactory wife; a scheming head of an Oxbridge college). 'Corridors of Power' fits into all this... as a shrewd reviewer here noted, there is in fact very little about actual 'corridors of power' - Prime Ministers, Civil Servants, Cabinet Ministers, military heads, nuclear physicists, directors of research establishments, and so on. The action is outsider stuff looking in - candidates for Parliament, backbenchers, people in country houses, acquaintances. Snow is incurious about the 'Hitler War' as he calls it, the 'Cold War', Churchill - he accepts all the usual attitudes. He accepts the oddities of the Oxbridge system, has no criticism of the legal system (his protagonist is a lawyer), believes in removing capital punishment because progressive did.

If you're looking for something of this sort - an evocation of England in the 30s, 40s, and 50s - I think Snow's series must be high on a list of consistent portrayals of the period as perceived by people in Britain who hadn't learned to look below the surface. The Corridors of Power: Amazon.co.uk: C. P. Snow: 9780333049693: Books The Corridors of Power Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Paperback Â£8.99 Amazon Prime Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Apple To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. or Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here , or download a FREE Kindle Reading App .

Product details Publisher: Macmillan; 1st edition (Dec. 1964) Language: English Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 2 cm Average Customer Review: Product Description About the Author C.P. Snow was born in Leicester, on 15 October 1905. He was educated from age 11 at Alderman Newton's School for boys where he excelled in most subjects, enjoying a reputation for an astounding memory. In 1923, he gained an external scholarship in science at London University, whilst working as a laboratory assistant at Newton's to gain the necessary practical experience, because Leicester University, as it was to become, had no chemistry or physics departments at that time. Having achieved a first class degree, followed by a Master of Science he won a studentship in 1928 which he used to research at the famous Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Snow went on to become a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1930 where he also served as a tutor, but his position became increasingly titular as he branched into other areas of activity.

In 1934, he began to publish scientific articles in 'Nature', and then 'The Spectator' before becoming editor of the journal 'Discovery' in 1937. He was also writing fiction during this period and in 1940 'Strangers and Brothers' was published. This was the first of eleven novels in the series and was later renamed 'George Passant' when 'Strangers and Brothers' was used to denote the series itself. 'Discovery' became a casualty of the war, closing in 1940. However, by this time Snow was already involved with the Royal Society, who had organised a group to specifically use British scientific talent operating under the auspices of the Ministry of Labour. He served as the Ministry's technical director from 1940 to 1944. After the war, he became a civil service commissioner responsible for recruiting scientists to work for the government and also returned to writing, continuing the 'Strangers and Brothers' novels.

'The Light and the Dark' was published in 1947, followed by 'Time of Hope' in 1949, and perhaps the most famous and popular of them all, 'The Masters', in 1951. He planned to finish the cycle within five years, but the final novel 'Last Things' wasn't published until 1970. C.P. Snow married the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1950 and they had one son, Philip, in 1952. He was knighted in 1957 and became a life peer in 1964, taking the title Baron Snow of the City Leicester. He also joined Harold Wilson's first government as Parliamentary Secretary to the new Minister of Technology. When the department ceased to exist in 1966 he became a vociferous back-bencher in the House of Lords. After finishing the 'Strangers and Brothers' series, Snow continued writing both fiction and non-fiction. His last work of fiction was 'A Coat of Vanish', published in 1978.

His non-fiction included a short life of Trollope published in 1974 and another, published posthumously in 1981, 'The Physicists: a Generation that Changed the World'. He was also inundated with lecturing requests and offers of honorary doctorates. In 1961, he became Rector of St. Andrews University and for ten years also wrote influential weekly reviews for the 'Financial Times'. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item? Corridors Of Power: C Snow: 9780140025064: Books - Amazon.ca By Mary E. Sibley on Nov. 26 2003 Format: Paperback This book was first published in 1964 as part of the STRANGERS AND BROTHERS series. Lewis Eliot and his wife Margaret are to dine at Roger Quaife's house. Quaife is a Conservative politician. Lewis works in the department of Sir Hector Rose which has someting to do with defense. Roger Quaife is an effective public speaker. Roger notes that a politician lives in the present.

One must first get power and then do something with it. He perceives that it is not realistic for England to possess its own atomic weapons. He seeks the assistance of Lewis to arrange a meeting with the scientists, Walter Luke and Francis Getliffe. The game being played by Roger is that he seeks the ministry held by Lord Gilbey. Lewis and Margaret become the guests of a great hostess, Diana Skidmore, at Basset, Diana's house in Hampshire. The subject of Roger's wife's brother comes up during the weekend. Roger claims that in observing etiquette, truth has suffered. Just following the weekend, Lewis and Margaret are invited to see Douglas and Mary Osbaldiston. Douglas is a highly placed fellow civil servant. Lord Gilbey becomes very ill. Lewis and others visit at the clinic. It is believed that whatever the physical outcome of Lord Gilbey's circumstances, Roger will get his post, unless he has damaged his chances in defending his wife Caro's brother Sammikins. While visiting Lord Gilbey Lewis earns that he has received a telegram from a former acquaintance of Lewis, Ronald Porson.

When Lewis travels to see Porson and complain of his act, he is stopped by the obvious drunken state of the man. Later Lord Gilbey receives the news that he is being removed from office. Roger Quaife is appointed to take his place. Francis Getliffe is a radical through conscience. Read more › Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. 5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, thoughtful read. May 31 2015 By Timothy J Hurst - Published on Amazon.com Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase If you haven't read any of the Strangers and Brothers series, you shouldn't start with this book, because they're sequential, and not everyone's cup of tea. I suggest you try GEORGE PASSANT first, the first one that C.P.Snow wrote, although chronologically second. You'll know by the end of the second chapter whether it's for you.

I really like the series - it follows an Englishman, Lewis Elliot, from his childhood in the 1920s to his old age, looking at various public and private events, set in a universily college, war, civil service, houses of the rich etc. The style is perceptive, gentle, almost flat. 5.0 out of 5 stars This volume of C. P. Snow's series about ... Aug. 1 2014 By Sydney Carton - Published on Amazon.com Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase This volume of C. P. Snow's series about power and corruption provides an interesting view of the workings of the civil service in the post-war period. It can almost be seen as a serious version of "Yes, Minister". 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful 3.0 out of 5 stars no title March 8 2006 By C. L Wilson - Published on Amazon.com Format: Paperback Apparently, it was Snow who coined the phrase "corridors of power" in an earlier book. This one is all about English politics, and the machinations that go on in trying to change policy.

I suspect it was far more riveting to an English reader who knows more about the workings of Parliament than I do. Rather dry, and involved, with many, many characters. Only in the last fifty pages or so is there any semblance of suspense. As usual, Lewis Eliot is the narrator and at the heart of matters. Exactly how he got to be such a confidante of Roger Quaife, who seems to be a Minister in another department, I never could figure out. Snow, I suspect, lived these times and questions, but perhaps he was too close to see that his reader might need a little more explanation. Quaife is trying to disengage England from the nuclear arms race, a thoroughly admirable position, but one which would have required Parliament to own up to the fact that England was no longer a super power, a hard pill to swallow indeed. Many times, throughout the book, one or another character expresses the thought that no man can really do much of anything, that government will go on in its own way no matter who is at the helm.

If you like to read about power and politics, all the weavings in and out, and subplots, the goings on behind the top, this book would probably rate high with you. I do not think it Snow's best. Once again, he is too detached. Too close to the heartbeat of things. On rereading this six years later, I see that like "The Affair", and "The Conscience of the Rich", this one too is about reputation and honor and conscience, very much so. A running theme with Snow apparently. And yet another one that is not about Lewis Eliot at all, but about other characters and arenas of life. I do not disagree with my earlier review, but now I see the distance Snow has chosen. In "The Affair", the plot revolved around Howard and Cambridge, in "Conscience", about the March family, and the world of the truly wealthy, and now, the 3rd, about Roger Quaife and the workings of Parliament. Eliot, as a character, is really only the narrator of all the events and - way too much so - the dissector of all the characters' natures, reasons for acting, etc. That got a bit much.

Too intricate, far too much delving into the various psyches. But his emphasis on the nature of the times, and the questions and events being too much for any one person to alter, certainly rings true today also. How we all feel helpless to change the way history is being played out. It would seem we are the product of our times; not that time is a product of our actions. Things just march inexorably on. Relentless. Anthony Hopkins played Quaife in the dismal BBC series, because Snow kept referring to him as Pierre, and Hopkins played Pierre in the marvelous "War and Peace". 3.0 out of 5 stars too much in the dining room, not enough in the corridors Feb. 24 2007 By Andrew Rudalevige - Published on Amazon.com Format: Paperback This book concerns the efforts of an ambitious Conservative politician on the rise - at the start of the book, he becomes a Minister in a newly formed Cabinet. With his power, he wants to prevent Britain's clinging to an independent nuclear deterrent in the late 1950s (Suez makes a brief appearance).

Some interesting questions are raised as to whether the moral rightness of this goal -- of which Snow, channeling the scientists who opposed even the use of the bomb at Hiroshima, clearly has no doubt -- can/should be compromised in the interests of furthering the minister's political rise (at the summit of which he can, presumably, do more good) and, too briefly, in the interaction of public opinion with 'informed' expert opinion. The accounts of the English civil service and its interactions with elected officials are excellently-drawn. But as a guide to the intracacies of parliamentary procedure, this book is a bit of a letdown. Much of the action takes place at dinner parties at various aristocratic homes, and the real focus is less on the policy questions than on various characters' love lives. Reason, not emotion, is Snow's strong suit in description and narrative, and so while his language -- at once crisp and dense -- often has a real appeal, it does not move one to care as much about the characters as one is probably supposed to. All in all, an interesting read, but not an essential one.

The policy issues, by the way, were real: if they are of interest, they are better explained (and, despite being more or less contemporary with _Corridors_, in a less dated manner) in Richard Neustadt's forgotten gem "Alliance Politics" and the report on the UK's "Skybolt" nuclear deterrent Neustadt wrote for John F Kennedy in 1963, now declassified and published by Cornell University Press. 1 of 2 people found the following review helpful 2.0 out of 5 stars Snow as an outsider, describing times before and after World War 2 June 26 2010 By Rerevisionist - Published on Amazon.com Format: Paperback This book is probably the best-known of a series of novels by Snow, which he wrote almost after the manner of Dickens, about one every couple of years, starting in 1940 with 'Strangers and Brothers'. He gave the same name to his series of I believe eleven titles. (Snow got off to a false start with a detective novel; then a story about science fraud, which H G Wells liked - Snow had a science background, but couldn't or wouldn't make a career of it).

Snow was something of a poor boy made good, as Muggeridge pointed out - a similar type to Melyvn Bragg and Clive James. Ambitious, and certainly not willing to rock the boat. In my view, his novels give a highly realistic picture of conventional life in Britain both before and after the Second World War. Even if Snow ever harboured dangerous thoughts, he would not have put them into his novels, except in the actions of flawed characters, which of course his novels have. (E.g. a convinced technical Communist; an unsatisfactory wife; a scheming head of an Oxbridge college). 'Corridors of Power' fits into all this... as a shrewd reviewer here noted, there is in fact very little about actual 'corridors of power' - Prime Ministers, Civil Servants, Cabinet Ministers, military heads, nuclear physicists, directors of research establishments, and so on. The action is outsider stuff looking in - candidates for Parliament, backbenchers, people in country houses, acquaintances. Snow is incurious about the 'Hitler War' as he calls it, the 'Cold War', Churchill - he accepts all the usual attitudes.

He accepts the oddities of the Oxbridge system, has no criticism of the legal system (his protagonist is a lawyer), believes in removing capital punishment because progressive did. If you're looking for something of this sort - an evocation of England in the 30s, 40s, and 50s - I think Snow's series must be high on a list of consistent portrayals of the period as perceived by people in Britain who hadn't learned to look below the surface. The Corridors of Power : C. P. Snow : 9781842324196 The Corridors of Power We can notify you when this item is back in stock Notify me Try AbeBooks Description The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Roger Quaife wages his ban-the-bomb campaign from his seat in the Cabinet and his office at the Ministry. The stakes are high as he employs his persuasiveness. show more Product details 136 x 202 x 28mm | 439.98g Publication date Sagas About C. P.

Snow C.P. Snow was born in Leicester, on 15 October 1905. He was educated from age 11 at Alderman Newton's School for boys where he excelled in most subjects, enjoying a reputation for an astounding memory. In 1923, he gained an external scholarship in science at London University, whilst working as a laboratory assistant at Newton's to gain the necessary practical experience, because Leicester University, as it was to become, had no chemistry or physics departments at that time. Having achieved a first class degree, followed by a Master of Science he won a studentship in 1928 which he used to research at the famous Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Snow went on to become a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1930 where he also served as a tutor, but his position became increasingly titular as he branched into other areas of activity. In 1934, he began to publish scientific articles in 'Nature', and then 'The Spectator' before becoming editor of the journal 'Discovery' in 1937. He was also writing fiction during this period and in 1940 'Strangers and Brothers' was published.

This was the first of eleven novels in the series and was later renamed 'George Passant' when 'Strangers and Brothers' was used to denote the series itself. 'Discovery' became a casualty of the war, closing in 1940. However, by this time Snow was already involved with the Royal Society, who had organised a group to specifically use British scientific talent operating under the auspices of the Ministry of Labour. He served as the Ministry's technical director from 1940 to 1944. After the war, he became a civil service commissioner responsible for recruiting scientists to work for the government and also returned to writing, continuing the 'Strangers and Brothers' novels. 'The Light and the Dark' was published in 1947, followed by 'Time of Hope' in 1949, and perhaps the most famous and popular of them all, 'The Masters', in 1951. He planned to finish the cycle within five years, but the final novel 'Last Things' wasn't published until 1970. C.P.

Snow married the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1950 and they had one son, Philip, in 1952. He was knighted in 1957 and became a life peer in 1964, taking the title Baron Snow of the City Leicester. He also joined Harold Wilson's first government as Parliamentary Secretary to the new Minister of Technology. When the department ceased to exist in 1966 he became a vociferous back-bencher in the House of Lords. After finishing the 'Strangers and Brothers' series, Snow continued writing both fiction and non-fiction. His last work of fiction was 'A Coat of Vanish', published in 1978. His non-fiction included a short life of Trollope published in 1974 and another, published posthumously in 1981, 'The Physicists: a Generation that Changed the World'. He was also inundated with lecturing requests and offers of honorary doctorates. In 1961, he became Rector of St. Andrews University and for ten years also wrote influential weekly reviews for the 'Financial Times'. show more Review Text This is the 11th novel in C.

P. Snow's cycle which has gained a cumulatively wider audience with each book; its selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club will now extend the eminent domain. Snow's success can be explained in many ways: he is, as someone has commented, "one of the few relatively serious writers whose novels are easy to read" and, one might add, understand, at a time when many people are finding the younger writers disconcerting. He represents a traditional form to which the conservative reader can turn with the assurance of finding vested values protected (even though, in this book which begins in 1955, they are plainly in the process of being scuttled). And he writes with a level intelligence of things as they are- i.e. a pragmatic worldliness and practical knowledgeability. Corridors of Power is concerned with Britain's position in the thermonuclear arms race, temporizing at a time when she is still playing the game of power politics without many of the cards.

Its central character is Roger Quaife, an ambitious, ascendant, adroit politician although something of "an irregular." A Cabinet Minister, he is widely attacked on his stand; then on the other hand, there is his affair with another woman which leads to threatening letters. As is observed during the book, one can get away with misconduct- public or private- but not both at the same time. He doesn't, and the end fulfills his wife's wistful portent - "It must be awful to have a brilliant future behind you." The publishers hope for the widest market Snow has had with this new book although it lacks the closer drama of The Affair. However it is, once again, a sound reading of the political, moral, ideological temper of the times; a substantial achievement even though one in which intellect has been asserted at the expense of imagination. (Kirkus Reviews) show more Follow us C.P. Snow CORRIDORS OF POWER 1964 1st Edition HC Book | eBay Have one to sell? Sell now Details about C.P. Snow CORRIDORS OF POWER 1964 1st Edition HC Book C.P.

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3 von 3 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich 3.0 von 5 Sternen no title 8. März 2006 Von C. L Wilson - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com Format: Taschenbuch Apparently, it was Snow who coined the phrase "corridors of power" in an earlier book. This one is all about English politics, and the machinations that go on in trying to change policy. I suspect it was far more riveting to an English reader who knows more about the workings of Parliament than I do. Rather dry, and involved, with many, many characters. Only in the last fifty pages or so is there any semblance of suspense. As usual, Lewis Eliot is the narrator and at the heart of matters. Exactly how he got to be such a confidante of Roger Quaife, who seems to be a Minister in another department, I never could figure out. Snow, I suspect, lived these times and questions, but perhaps he was too close to see that his reader might need a little more explanation.

Quaife is trying to disengage England from the nuclear arms race, a thoroughly admirable position, but one which would have required Parliament to own up to the fact that England was no longer a super power, a hard pill to swallow indeed. Many times, throughout the book, one or another character expresses the thought that no man can really do much of anything, that government will go on in its own way no matter who is at the helm. If you like to read about power and politics, all the weavings in and out, and subplots, the goings on behind the top, this book would probably rate high with you. I do not think it Snow's best. Once again, he is too detached. Too close to the heartbeat of things. On rereading this six years later, I see that like "The Affair", and "The Conscience of the Rich", this one too is about reputation and honor and conscience, very much so. A running theme with Snow apparently. And yet another one that is not about Lewis Eliot at all, but about other characters and arenas of life. I do not disagree with my earlier review, but now I see the distance Snow has chosen.

In "The Affair", the plot revolved around Howard and Cambridge, in "Conscience", about the March family, and the world of the truly wealthy, and now, the 3rd, about Roger Quaife and the workings of Parliament. Eliot, as a character, is really only the narrator of all the events and - way too much so - the dissector of all the characters' natures, reasons for acting, etc. That got a bit much. Too intricate, far too much delving into the various psyches. But his emphasis on the nature of the times, and the questions and events being too much for any one person to alter, certainly rings true today also. How we all feel helpless to change the way history is being played out. It would seem we are the product of our times; not that time is a product of our actions. Things just march inexorably on. Relentless. Anthony Hopkins played Quaife in the dismal BBC series, because Snow kept referring to him as Pierre, and Hopkins played Pierre in the marvelous "War and Peace". 3.0 von 5 Sternen too much in the dining room, not enough in the corridors 25.

Februar 2007 Von Andrew Rudalevige - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com Format: Taschenbuch This book concerns the efforts of an ambitious Conservative politician on the rise - at the start of the book, he becomes a Minister in a newly formed Cabinet. With his power, he wants to prevent Britain's clinging to an independent nuclear deterrent in the late 1950s (Suez makes a brief appearance). Some interesting questions are raised as to whether the moral rightness of this goal -- of which Snow, channeling the scientists who opposed even the use of the bomb at Hiroshima, clearly has no doubt -- can/should be compromised in the interests of furthering the minister's political rise (at the summit of which he can, presumably, do more good) and, too briefly, in the interaction of public opinion with 'informed' expert opinion. The accounts of the English civil service and its interactions with elected officials are excellently-drawn. But as a guide to the intracacies of parliamentary procedure, this book is a bit of a letdown. Much of the action takes place at dinner parties at various aristocratic homes, and the real focus is less on the policy questions than on various characters' love lives.

Reason, not emotion, is Snow's strong suit in description and narrative, and so while his language -- at once crisp and dense -- often has a real appeal, it does not move one to care as much about the characters as one is probably supposed to. All in all, an interesting read, but not an essential one. The policy issues, by the way, were real: if they are of interest, they are better explained (and, despite being more or less contemporary with _Corridors_, in a less dated manner) in Richard Neustadt's forgotten gem "Alliance Politics" and the report on the UK's "Skybolt" nuclear deterrent Neustadt wrote for John F Kennedy in 1963, now declassified and published by Cornell University Press. 1 von 2 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich 2.0 von 5 Sternen Snow as an outsider, describing times before and after World War 2 26.

Juni 2010 Von Rerevisionist - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com Format: Taschenbuch This book is probably the best-known of a series of novels by Snow, which he wrote almost after the manner of Dickens, about one every couple of years, starting in 1940 with 'Strangers and Brothers'. He gave the same name to his series of I believe eleven titles. (Snow got off to a false start with a detective novel; then a story about science fraud, which H G Wells liked - Snow had a science background, but couldn't or wouldn't make a career of it). Snow was something of a poor boy made good, as Muggeridge pointed out - a similar type to Melyvn Bragg and Clive James. Ambitious, and certainly not willing to rock the boat. In my view, his novels give a highly realistic picture of conventional life in Britain both before and after the Second World War. Even if Snow ever harboured dangerous thoughts, he would not have put them into his novels, except in the actions of flawed characters, which of course his novels have. (E.g. a convinced technical Communist; an unsatisfactory wife; a scheming head of an Oxbridge college).

'Corridors of Power' fits into all this... as a shrewd reviewer here noted, there is in fact very little about actual 'corridors of power' - Prime Ministers, Civil Servants, Cabinet Ministers, military heads, nuclear physicists, directors of research establishments, and so on. The action is outsider stuff looking in - candidates for Parliament, backbenchers, people in country houses, acquaintances. Snow is incurious about the 'Hitler War' as he calls it, the 'Cold War', Churchill - he accepts all the usual attitudes. He accepts the oddities of the Oxbridge system, has no criticism of the legal system (his protagonist is a lawyer), believes in removing capital punishment because progressive did. If you're looking for something of this sort - an evocation of England in the 30s, 40s, and 50s - I think Snow's series must be high on a list of consistent portrayals of the period as perceived by people in Britain who hadn't learned to look below the surface. 0 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich The Corridors of Power: Amazon.it: C. P.

Snow: Libri in altre lingue 5.0 su 5 stelle This volume of C. P. Snow's series about ... 1 agosto 2014 Di Sydney Carton - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Formato Kindle Acquisto verificato This volume of C. P. Snow's series about power and corruption provides an interesting view of the workings of the civil service in the post-war period. It can almost be seen as a serious version of "Yes, Minister". 3 di 3 persone hanno trovato utile la seguente recensione 3.0 su 5 stelle no title 8 marzo 2006 Di C. L Wilson - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Copertina flessibile Apparently, it was Snow who coined the phrase "corridors of power" in an earlier book. This one is all about English politics, and the machinations that go on in trying to change policy. I suspect it was far more riveting to an English reader who knows more about the workings of Parliament than I do. Rather dry, and involved, with many, many characters.

Only in the last fifty pages or so is there any semblance of suspense. As usual, Lewis Eliot is the narrator and at the heart of matters. Exactly how he got to be such a confidante of Roger Quaife, who seems to be a Minister in another department, I never could figure out. Snow, I suspect, lived these times and questions, but perhaps he was too close to see that his reader might need a little more explanation. Quaife is trying to disengage England from the nuclear arms race, a thoroughly admirable position, but one which would have required Parliament to own up to the fact that England was no longer a super power, a hard pill to swallow indeed. Many times, throughout the book, one or another character expresses the thought that no man can really do much of anything, that government will go on in its own way no matter who is at the helm. If you like to read about power and politics, all the weavings in and out, and subplots, the goings on behind the top, this book would probably rate high with you. I do not think it Snow's best. Once again, he is too detached. Too close to the heartbeat of things.

On rereading this six years later, I see that like "The Affair", and "The Conscience of the Rich", this one too is about reputation and honor and conscience, very much so. A running theme with Snow apparently. And yet another one that is not about Lewis Eliot at all, but about other characters and arenas of life. I do not disagree with my earlier review, but now I see the distance Snow has chosen. In "The Affair", the plot revolved around Howard and Cambridge, in "Conscience", about the March family, and the world of the truly wealthy, and now, the 3rd, about Roger Quaife and the workings of Parliament. Eliot, as a character, is really only the narrator of all the events and - way too much so - the dissector of all the characters' natures, reasons for acting, etc. That got a bit much. Too intricate, far too much delving into the various psyches. But his emphasis on the nature of the times, and the questions and events being too much for any one person to alter, certainly rings true today also. How we all feel helpless to change the way history is being played out.

It would seem we are the product of our times; not that time is a product of our actions. Things just march inexorably on. Relentless. Anthony Hopkins played Quaife in the dismal BBC series, because Snow kept referring to him as Pierre, and Hopkins played Pierre in the marvelous "War and Peace". 3.0 su 5 stelle too much in the dining room, not enough in the corridors 25 febbraio 2007 Di Andrew Rudalevige - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Copertina flessibile This book concerns the efforts of an ambitious Conservative politician on the rise - at the start of the book, he becomes a Minister in a newly formed Cabinet. With his power, he wants to prevent Britain's clinging to an independent nuclear deterrent in the late 1950s (Suez makes a brief appearance).

Some interesting questions are raised as to whether the moral rightness of this goal -- of which Snow, channeling the scientists who opposed even the use of the bomb at Hiroshima, clearly has no doubt -- can/should be compromised in the interests of furthering the minister's political rise (at the summit of which he can, presumably, do more good) and, too briefly, in the interaction of public opinion with 'informed' expert opinion. The accounts of the English civil service and its interactions with elected officials are excellently-drawn. But as a guide to the intracacies of parliamentary procedure, this book is a bit of a letdown. Much of the action takes place at dinner parties at various aristocratic homes, and the real focus is less on the policy questions than on various characters' love lives. Reason, not emotion, is Snow's strong suit in description and narrative, and so while his language -- at once crisp and dense -- often has a real appeal, it does not move one to care as much about the characters as one is probably supposed to. All in all, an interesting read, but not an essential one.

The policy issues, by the way, were real: if they are of interest, they are better explained (and, despite being more or less contemporary with _Corridors_, in a less dated manner) in Richard Neustadt's forgotten gem "Alliance Politics" and the report on the UK's "Skybolt" nuclear deterrent Neustadt wrote for John F Kennedy in 1963, now declassified and published by Cornell University Press. 1 di 2 persone hanno trovato utile la seguente recensione 2.0 su 5 stelle Snow as an outsider, describing times before and after World War 2 26 giugno 2010 Di Rerevisionist - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Copertina flessibile This book is probably the best-known of a series of novels by Snow, which he wrote almost after the manner of Dickens, about one every couple of years, starting in 1940 with 'Strangers and Brothers'. He gave the same name to his series of I believe eleven titles.

(Snow got off to a false start with a detective novel; then a story about science fraud, which H G Wells liked - Snow had a science background, but couldn't or wouldn't make a career of it). Snow was something of a poor boy made good, as Muggeridge pointed out - a similar type to Melyvn Bragg and Clive James. Ambitious, and certainly not willing to rock the boat. In my view, his novels give a highly realistic picture of conventional life in Britain both before and after the Second World War. Even if Snow ever harboured dangerous thoughts, he would not have put them into his novels, except in the actions of flawed characters, which of course his novels have. (E.g. a convinced technical Communist; an unsatisfactory wife; a scheming head of an Oxbridge college). 'Corridors of Power' fits into all this... as a shrewd reviewer here noted, there is in fact very little about actual 'corridors of power' - Prime Ministers, Civil Servants, Cabinet Ministers, military heads, nuclear physicists, directors of research establishments, and so on. The action is outsider stuff looking in - candidates for Parliament, backbenchers, people in country houses, acquaintances.

Snow is incurious about the 'Hitler War' as he calls it, the 'Cold War', Churchill - he accepts all the usual attitudes. He accepts the oddities of the Oxbridge system, has no criticism of the legal system (his protagonist is a lawyer), believes in removing capital punishment because progressive did. If you're looking for something of this sort - an evocation of England in the 30s, 40s, and 50s - I think Snow's series must be high on a list of consistent portrayals of the period as perceived by people in Britain who hadn't learned to look below the surface. 0 di 1 persone hanno trovato utile la seguente recensione

Question: Who wrote the 1964 book ‘The Corridors of Power’?
Answer: C P Snow