The Masters

📓 In a Cambridge college the old Master is dying. He knows, and his colleagues know, that shortly they will elect a successor. The rival candidates are Paul Jago, warm and sympathetic, but given to extravagant moods, and handicapped by an unsuitable wife, and Crawford, a shrewd, cautious, reliable man with half Jago's human gifts. In this early study of power in a confined setting, C.P.Snow shows thesame insight into political motives and manoeuvres that he has applied to national issues. And the tension is no less.