Corridors of Power (novel) Corridors of Power (novel) Corridors of Power is the ninth book in C. P. Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" series. Its title had become a household phrase referring to the centres of government and power after Snow coined it in his earlier novel, "Homecomings". (A slightly rueful Foreword to "Corridors of Power" expresses the hope that he is at least entitled to use his own cliché.) "Corridors of Power" is concerned with the attempts of an English MP to influence the country's policy on nuclear weapons in the 1950s. The central character is Roger Quaife, an ambitious politician and Cabinet Minister.
Corridors of Power (novel) He is widely attacked on his stand that Britain's position in the thermonuclear arms race at the same time his affair with another woman leads to potential blackmail. In a 1964 book review in "Kirkus Reviews" called the book "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." In the BBC's 1984 television serialisation of "Strangers and Brothers", Shaughan Seymour played Lewis Eliot and Anthony Hopkins played Roger Quaife. Corridors of Power (novel) Corridors of Power is the ninth book