Commentary In American Life

Contents

Contents Introduction Commentary: The First Sixty Years, by Murray Friedman 1 1 “America Is Home”: Commentary Magazine and the Refocusing of the Community of Memory, 1945—1960, by Nathan Abrams 9 2 Commentary: The Early Years, by Nathan Glazer 38 3 The Jewishness of Commentary, by Ruth R. Wisse 52 4 Commentary and the City: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong, by Fred Siegel 74 5 What They Talked About When They Talked About Literature: Commentary in Its First Three Decades, by Thomas L. Jeffers 99 6 Commentary and the Common Culture, by Terry Teachout 127 7 Norman Podhoretz and the Cold War, by Richard Gid Powers 134 8 Joining the Ranks: Commentary and American Conservatism, by George H. Nash 151 9 Commentary's Children: Neoconservatism in the Twenty-First Century, by John Ehrman 174 Notes 191 About the Contributors 219 Index 221 v ...