Volume 28, Number 6 · April 16, 1981
Artist in Politics
By Noel Annan
George Orwell: A Life
by Bernard Crick
Atlantic Monthly / Little, Brown, 456 pp., $19.95
Bernard Crick is the editor of the Political Quarterly, a journal founded and in the past edited by Leonard Woolf, which places him politically. He is middle-of-the-road socialist, disliking British snobbery and inefficiency but not disposed to have much truck with notions of mass participation and alliances with communists or Trotskyites. He is not a social democrat but a socialist like Woolf, or G.D.H. Cole. That may well be why Crick was chosen to write George Orwell's life and given access to the archive.
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