SOURCE: “Blaming the Victim,” in The Nation, Vol. 224, No. 24, June 18, 1977, pp. 757-59.

In the following review, Radosh finds Trilling's interpretations of events in the 1960s in We Must March My Darlings shallow and simplistic.

Our cultural history continues to be packaged by decades. This season has already brought us Morris Dickstein's sympathetic treatment of the 1960s' culture in Gates of Eden; and now we have a very different assessment of that decade from Diana Trilling, whose political and cultural vision developed in the 1930s, framed by the Spanish Civil War on one hand, and the betrayal of the Socialist dream in the Moscow purge trials of the 1930s on the other.

Although Mrs. Trilling's volume We Must March My Darlings is essentially a collection of previously published responses to the decade, with some significant additions and updating, she still manages to address herself to the right questions, and...