Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction: Orwell: Good or Ungood?.......................................................................................... 2
Section 1......................................................................................................................................... 9
Chapter I In Defense of Comrade Psmith: the Orwellian treatment of Orwell............................... 9
Chapter II The Orwellian Method.................................................................................................. 21
Chapter III Orwell the Socialist...................................................................................................... 25
Chapter IV Tangential Criticisms................................................................................................... 34
Conclusion................................................................................................................................ 35
Section 2 -In Memoriam- retrospective views.......................................................................... 38
Chapter V Orwell's Own Airstrip One in 2014............................................................................... 38
Chapter VI The Persistence of Pessimism, Oceania 20 years after Nineteen Eighty-Four............... 42
Chapter VII Afterlife of An Atheist................................................................................................ 46
Section 3 Beyond the Telescreen - Snitching, Snooping and Surveillance............................ 62
Chapter VIII No bother about Big Brother...................................................................................... 62
Chapter IX Alexander Cockburn and "Snitching"........................................................................... 67
Chapter X The List......................................................................................................................... 73
"The List".................................................................................................................................. 77
Section 4 What Is Left?................................................................................................................ 82
Chapter XI Disabusing Idiocy? Orwell & the Left............................................................................ 82
Chapter XII Orwell and the Democratic Left.................................................................................. 84
Chapter XIII Striking Back at the Empire......................................................................................... 90
Interlude..................................................................................................................................... 106
Chapter XIV Revolution Is No Tea Party but It's Easier in a Salon: Reading the Leaves Afterwards 106
Chapter XV Orwell and the Left in the United States -the Under-reported side of Oceania ........ 114
Chapter XVI Letters to Oceania?.................................................................................................. 139
Chapter XVII Irving Howe, Orwell's Prophet in the USA............................................................... 143
Section 6 Cover Bards - Hitchens the Orwell Emulator And His Detractors............................. 158
Chapter XVIII Orwell's Lives........................................................................................................ 158
Chapter XIX Why Hitchens Matters............................................................................................. 164
Chapter XX Christopher Hitchens and Orwell.............................................................................. 171