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Peter Collier (1) (1939–2019)

Author of The Kennedys: An American Drama

For other authors named Peter Collier, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Peter Collier is an author who often collaborated on his boooks with David Horowitz. Together they co-wrote books about dynasty families like: The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976), The Kennedys: An American Drama (1984) and The Fords: An American Epic (1987), and in 1994 Collier published show more The Roosevelts: An American Saga, with Horowitz contributing. In addition, Collier wrote a novel, Down River (1979); a children's book, The King's Giraffe (with his wife, 1996); and books honoring military figures like Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty (2003). During the 1960s and '70s, Collier and Horowitz worked together on the New Left journal Ramparts, but "made a 180-degree turn and began writing books and articles from the conservative side of the spectrum. Their 1989 book, Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties, attacked what they perceived to be the nostalgia that had grown up around that decade. In 1998, Collier founded Encounter Books, which has published a range of authors, many of them conservative. Peter Collier passed away on November 1, 2019 from leukemia. He was 80 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Peter Collier

The Kennedys: An American Drama (1984) 565 copies, 3 reviews
The Roosevelts: An American Saga (1994) 465 copies, 2 reviews
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976) 331 copies, 3 reviews
The Fords: An American Epic (1987) 199 copies, 1 review
The Anti-Chomsky Reader (2004) 125 copies, 3 reviews

Associated Works

Booknotes: Stories from American History (2001) — Contributor — 480 copies, 5 reviews
Call to Battle! (1988) — Contributor — 86 copies, 1 review
Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History (2002) — Contributor — 66 copies
Justice Denied: The Black Man in White America. (1970) — Joint Comp. — 17 copies, 1 review
Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction 31 1994 (1994) — Author — 11 copies

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Quite a detailed account of the family from the early one who came from Ireland, to Joe Kennedy who married Rose Fitzgerald, daughter of another Boston Irish politician, to JFK and Bobby, and Teddy and the others, down to the generation of the 1980s. Despite not getting help from the family directly, the authors did very well. Took a while to read and skimmed the last quarter of it. Extremely interesting if you want to know about them and "Camelot" and the dark side too.
 
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kslade | 2 other reviews | Dec 8, 2022 |
 
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laplantelibrary | 2 other reviews | Dec 14, 2021 |
Horowitz, David (Joint Author.); Rockefeller family (Subject)
 
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LOM-Lausanne | 2 other reviews | Apr 30, 2020 |
There is no plot to this work. The narrative is dry. There is no climax. All we have here are brief recitations of the records of the 2011 still-living winners of the Medal. In each of the stories, we find not bravery but incredible support for others. Is this book enjoyable? Hardly. What can we learn from this book? Nothing. While some of the winners led daring lives before service in the Military, most were just ordinary folk. There was nothing to suggest they'd ever be found in the pages of this book (or on the list of Medal of Honor winners). All there is for us to do is just be in awe.

One of the men in these pages came from the town where I now live. Of all the write-ups, his is the only one where we read his home town threw him a huge party after he received the Medal. Alas, he's gone now but his memory remains alive in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.
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