Articles of Faith by Berry, Neil

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Title:	Articles of Faith
Author:	Berry, Neil
Publisher:	Waywiser
Format:	Cloth
ISBN:	1-904130-08-9	Pages:	224
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Articles of Faith by Berry, Neil Articles of Faith is a study of leading British intellectual periodicals and those who conducted them - high-minded editors with a sense of themselves as champions of civilisation. Neil Berry's compendious and original book evokes such key figures as Francis Jeffrey, editor of the Edinburgh Review from 1802 to 1829; John Morley, editor of the Fortnightly Review from 1867 to 1882; W.T. Stead, editor of the Review of Reviews from 1890 to 1912; James Knowles, editor of the Nineteenth Century from 1877 to 1907; and Kingsley Martin, editor of the New Statesman from 1931 to 1960. Creatures of the British Empire, these hugely opinionated exponents of the 'higher journalism' were also, Berry argues, unofficial civil servants who did much to prepare the way for the public-spirited Britain that emerged after the Second World War. Berry's book goes on to discuss the anti-communist politico-cultural Review, Encounter, founded in London in 1953, and the US ideologues, Melvin Lasky and Michael Josselson, who were its mainstays. Covertly financed by the CIA, Encounter was an instrument of the higher propaganda which, among other things, was an American attempt to appropriate the pan-continental influence and authority long enjoyed by British intellectual journalism. Articles of Faith concludes with an anatomy of the remarkable career of Karl Miller, who was literary editor of the Spectator from 1957 to 1961, literary editor of the New Statesman from 1961 to 1967, editor of the Listener from 1967 to 1973, and editor of the London Review of Books -- which he helped to found -- from 1979 to 1992. This Scottish intellectual impresario is seen here as the heir of Jeffrey and the Edinburgh reviewers of the early nineteenth century, a resolute upholder of old-style British high-mindedness in increasingly unpropitious circumstances. In an afterword, Berry ponders the fate of the higher journalism in today's commercialised media culture, with its fixation on soundbites and celebrities.
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