Middle of the Journey Author:Lionel Trilling Published in 1947 as the Cold War was heating up, Lionel Trilling?s only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the ideological conflicts that would come to a head in the McCarthy era. But this work of complex deliberation, high passion, and tragic import is no less striking for its richly detailed, often slyly humorous picture of the manners and ... more »mores of the intelligentsia. "A searching account of the liberal?s dilemma of conscience." ? The Atlantic Monthly« less