E. L. Doctorow’s 1971 novel focuses on Daniel Isaacson, the disturbed son of parents executed for giving the secret of the atomic bomb to the USSR. While working on his Ph.D. in the late 1960s, Daniel tries to reconcile what… Read More ›
Cold War literature
Analysis of C. P. Snow’s Corridors of Power
Volume nine in Snow’s 11-volume series Strangers and Brothers, Corridors of Power follows The Affair and precedes the elegiac closing volumes of The Sleep of Reason and Last Things. The first-person narrator of the series, Lewis Eliot, has achieved a… Read More ›
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