Looking for Trilling's Intro to 1984

[John Bailey]

I have access to the online archives but a search isn't bringing up
anything. If you knew the date I could find it manually.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:54 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> The New Yorker, A Critic at Large September 29, 2008 Issue
> Regrets Only
> Lionel Trilling and his discontents.
> By Louis Menand
>
> The paragraph below appears in the NYRB reprint of Trilling's _TLI_
> with Introduction by Louis Menand.
>
> “The Liberal Imagination” was a Cold War book. It appeared at the same
> political moment as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,’s “The Vital Center”
> (1949), George Orwell’s “1984” (1949), and Richard Crossman’s “The God
> That Failed” (1950)—books that helped make the case for liberal
> anti-Communism. Trilling was certainly a liberal anti-Communist.
> Orwell was one of his heroes: he reviewed “1984” in The New Yorker,
> and called the book “momentous.” And he was prominently associated
> with Partisan Review, which had been the journalistic home of the
> anti-Communist left since 1937. Five of the sixteen essays in “The
> Liberal Imagination” first appeared in Partisan Review; a sixth is
> about Partisan Review. (The book is being reprinted this fall by New
> York Review Books.)
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Allan Balliett
> <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's not Trilling's review in The Nation? -Allan in WV
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:03 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sorry, it's not an Introduction but a Review of the novel by Trilling
> >> in the New Yorker. I've lots on the Review and its significance,
> >> including an essay by Louis Menand, the Introduction to Trilling's
> >> _The Liberal Imagination_, but I can't locate the Review.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:00 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Looked online but no luck. Anyone?
> >> -
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> >
> >
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