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'''Lionel Trilling''' (1905-1975) was a highly influential American literary critic and Professor of English at Columbia University in New York. His most influential book was ''The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society'' (1950).
A Communist when young, Trilling turned anti-communist in the 1930s. Trilling was an architect of liberal anti-communism and political pluralism who sought a reasoned moderation as the antithesis to Soviet communism. Rejecting his Jewish heritage he became an advocate of secularism.
==Further reading==
* Kimmage, Michael. ''The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism'' (2009)
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A Communist when young, Trilling turned anti-communist in the 1930s. Trilling was an architect of liberal anti-communism and political pluralism who sought a reasoned moderation as the antithesis to Soviet communism. Rejecting his Jewish heritage he became an advocate of secularism.
==Further reading==
* Kimmage, Michael. ''The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism'' (2009)
[[Category:New Deal]]
[[Category:Liberals]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Trilling, Lionel}}