Political and Cultural Perceptions of George Orwell; Author's Note; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Orwell: Good or Ungood?; Abstract ; Part I Choking with Rage: Doublethink and Criticism; Chapter 2 In Defense of Comrade Psmith: The Orwellian Treatment of Orwell; Abstract ; Chapter 3 The Orwellian Method; Abstract ; Chapter 4 Orwell the Socialist; Abstract ; Chapter 5 Tangential Criticisms; Abstract ; Conclusion; Part II In Memoriam-Retrospective Views; Chapter 6 Orwell's Own Airstrip One in 2014; Abstract

Chapter 7 The Persistence of Pessimism, Oceania 20 Years After Nineteen Eighteen-FourAbstract ; Chapter 8 Afterlife of an Atheist; Abstract ; Part III Beyond the Telescreen-Snitching, Snooping and Surveillance; Chapter 9 No Bother About Big Brother; Abstract ; Chapter 10 Alexander Cockburn and "Snitching"; Abstract ; Chapter 11 The List; Abstract ; "The List"; Part IV What Is Left?; Chapter 12 Disabusing Idiocy? Orwell and the Left; Abstract ; Chapter 13 And Orwell and the Democratic Left; Abstract ; Chapter 14 Striking Back at the Empire; Abstract ; Part V Interlude

Chapter 15 Revolution Is No Tea Party but It's Easier in a Salon: Reading the Leaves AfterwardsAbstract ; Chapter 16 Orwell and the Left in the United States-The Under-Reported Side of Oceania!; Abstract ; Partisan Review; Dwight Macdonald, Orwell's WASP Soulmate in the USA; Chapter 17 Letters to Oceania?; Abstract ; Chapter 18 Irving Howe, Orwell's Prophet in the USA; Abstract ; Part VI Cover Bards-Hitchens the Orwell Emulator and His Detractors; Chapter 19 Orwell's Lives; Abstract ; Chapter 20 Why Hitchens Matters; Abstract ; Chapter 21 Christopher Hitchens and Orwell; Abstract

Chapter 22 Antithesis Incarnate: Christopher Hitchens, a Retrospective GlanceAbstract ; Chapter 23 Hitchens and the Iraq War; Abstract ; Chapter 24 Truth in Journalism; Abstract ; Selected Bibliography; Index