Morton's review:

Meyer was a former Communist, but he atoned for this by the many contributions he made to the anti-communist cause and to the conservative movement.  The latter, I believe, owes an incalculable debt to him.

Before 1960, Meyer, who was at the time a senior editor of National Review, began arguing that there was no inherent contradiction between the two major streams of the right in America: free-market principles and traditional values.

He further argued that for the conservative movement to succeed, adherents of both lines of thought, natural allies on most issues, must be fused together.  Supporters of a conservative economic policy, he taught, couldn't expect their policies to be enacted without the backing of social-issue conservatives.  And it was equally true, he continued, that social-issue conservatives couldn't expect their policies to be enacted unless they allied with economic conservatives.

The presidential elections of 1980, 1984, 1988, and 2000 as well as several cycles of congressional elections beginning in 1994 were manifestations of the wisdom of Frank Meyer.