The Cambridge Apostles 1820 1914

This book is a full-scale study of the world''s most famous secret society the Cambridge Apostles. It shows how the Apostles recruited their members examines their intellectual preoccupations and studies the careers of such figures as F. D. Maurice Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes by tracing the participation of the Apostles in politics letters and liberal reform in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book also examines the role of liberalism imagination and friendship in modern life.