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Commentary in American Life »
Authors: Murray Friedman
ISBN-13: 9781592131051, ISBN-10: 1592131050
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Temple University Press
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Murray Friedman
Murray Friedman is the Director of the Myer and Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University, and editor of Philadelphia Jewish Life, 1940-2000 (Temple), and a forthcoming history of Jewish conservatism.
Book Synopsis
Commentary magazine's impact on American life, letters, and politics.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : commentary : the first sixty years | 1 | |
| 1 | "America is home" : Commentary magazine and the refocusing of the community of memory, 1945-1960 | 9 |
| 2 | Commentary : the early years | 38 |
| 3 | The Jewishness of Commentary | 52 |
| 4 | Commentary and the city : getting it right, getting it wrong | 74 |
| 5 | What they talked about when they talked about literature : Commentary is its first three decades | 99 |
| 6 | Commentary and the common culture | 127 |
| 7 | Norman Podhoretz and the Cold War | 134 |
| 8 | Joining the ranks : Commentary and American conservatism | 151 |
| 9 | Commentary's children : neoconservatism in the twenty-first century | 174 |
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