Mid-Century Minds

In The New Republic, Damon Linker reviews Michael Kimmage's The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism, John Summers revisits Dwight Macdonald's Against the American Grain from 1962, and Tom Bissell reviews Elizabeth Fraterrigo's Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America.