Commentary in American life / edited by Murray Friedman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedman, Murray, 1926-2005.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Politics and government.

Jews.

United States.

Politics and government.

Jews--United States--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Commentary (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

v, 226 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, [2005]

Contents:

Introduction: Commentary: The First Sixty Years / Murray Friedman 1

1 "America Is Home": Commentary Magazine and the Refocusing of the Community of Memory, 1945-1960 / Nathan Abrams 9

2 Commentary: The Early Years / Nathan Glazer 38

3 The Jewishness of Commentary / Ruth R. Wisse 52

4 Commentary and the City: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong / Fred Siegel 74

5 What They Talked About When They Talked About Literature: Commentary in Its First Three Decades / Thomas L. Jeffers 99

6 Commentary and the Common Culture / Terry Teachout 127

7 Norman Podhoretz and the Cold War / Richard Gid Powers 134

8 Joining the Ranks: Commentary and American Conservatism / George H. Nash 151

9 Commentary's Children: Neoconservatism in the Twenty-First Century / John Ehrman 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1592131050

1592131069

OCLC:

55657226