Books written by Peter Collier

An Introduction to Literature

His Pictures from Brueghel , and Other Poems ( 1962 ) was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize . was Wordsworth , William ( 1770-1850 ) Wordsworth born near England's sparsely settled settled Lake District , an area he and his friend ...
The Fords: An American Epic

Soon after the Peace Ship fiasco, in fact, Liebold had hired a con artist named Stanley W. Finch to study the malign operations of “big money” in the United States. Formerly an aide to US. Attorney General George W. Wickersham during ...
Roosevelts: An American Saga

87 "he cried like a child": S. Morris, p. 143. There was an element of relief within TR's grief. After Elliott's death, he wrote Conie, "There is one great comfort I already feel; I only need to have pleasant thoughts of Elliott now.
Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick

One was with Neumann's friend Marcuse, who at that point was still working in the department's Central European section. She found him "very heavy-handed, very Germanic, very theoretical, very Marxist, and very pompous.
Surviving the PC University: The Best of Heterodoxy

With devastating effect , he compares Will's distrust of tolerance and dialogue to Marcuse's noxious notion of “ repressive tolerance ” ; by the end of his analysis , Will's doctrine of education as “ soulcraft ” sounded ( to me ) a lot ...
Proust and Venice

This study of Proust's famous novel A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) focuses on Venice, one of the hero's central obsessions, and shows how a whole network of allusions to art (from Titian to Turner, from Byzantine ...
The Kennedys: An American Drama

He listened to banker John J. McCloy, even former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, with whom he had always had a cool relationship—men who strongly represented Establishment thinking. “In many ways,” Lem Billings said, “Jack still felt ...
The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty

It came to him visually , as a summary of other films he'd seen . The two men would be like John Wayne or Ward Bond or Montgomery Clift - wounded heroes , searchers . In the middle of his reverie , he picked up his guitar .
In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah

As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation.
肯尼迪家族/美国第一家庭传奇/Kennedys: 美国第一家庭传奇

肯尼迪家族是美国历史上最具争议的家族,也是最受人们崇拜与憎恨的家族。本书作者花了数年时间,深入研究档案,走访肯尼迪家族成员及相关人员 ...
破坏性的一代: 对六十年代的再思考

本书描述了20世纪60年代美国文化变革时期的社会状况。
Geprüfter Handelsfachwirt: Das gesamte Fachwissen mit vielen Beispielen aus der Praxis vom Fachwirte-Spezialisten

Geprüfter Handelsfachwirt: Das gesamte Fachwissen mit vielen Beispielen aus der Praxis vom Fachwirte-Spezialisten
In Search of Lost Time: Guermantes way

As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation.
Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick

He relayed his concerns to William “Wild Bill” Donovan, head of the OSS. Donovan agreed that it was a problem and agreed too with Kirk's recommendation that Willmoore ...
The Kennedys: An American Drama

An immediate classic, The Kennedys combines intimate knowledge with a perspective free of obligations to family loyalties and myths, bringing the story of four generations of ''America's family'' fully into view.
Choosing Courage: Inspiring True Stories of What It Means to Be a Hero

. . These tales of heroism take the reader from World War II to Iraq and Afghanistan and to U.S. shores, where even a schoolteacher can face life-and-death situations.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties

Destructive Generation is the untold story of the 1960s-the tragic consequences of everything-goes hedonism and the destructiveness of revolutionary passion that typified the attitude of many young radicals. Destructive Generation,...
The Kennedys: An American Drama

The Kennedys may be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated and controversial family in American history. But the real story was not told until Collier and Horowitz...
Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty

On October 25, 2010, Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta became the first living person since the Vietnam War to receive the United States’ highest military decoration, and both he and Sergeant Leroy Petry (the second inductee) rightly take ...
Medal of Honor, Revised & Updated Third Edition: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty

The men in the book fought in conflicts from World War II to Afghanistan, served in every branch of the armed services, and represent a cross section as diverse as America itself. This is their ultimate record.