Books written by Peter Collier

Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties

Part memoir, part political analysis of an intellectual journey through the radical trenches of the Sixties. Revealing the destructive legacy of the New Left and its conseqences in America's politics and culture today.
Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology

'If the poet, in the words of +douard Glissant, is a "visionnaire du concret", this volume of close readings explores poetry as utterance situated between dream and reality without ascribing a mission to the poet or attempting to unearth ...
Artistic Relations: Literature and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-century France

T.J. Clark , The Absolute Bourgeois : Artists and Politics in France 1848–1851 ( London , 1973 ) , p . 101 . 15. See Ann Jefferson , Reading Realism in Stendhal ( Cambridge , 1988 ) , p . 32 . 16.
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the '60S

Argues that sixties radicalism was basically destructive and its main legacy is the common belief in America's untrustworthiness
The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty

The co-author of The Kennedys delivers a major biography of an extraordinary family, telling the powerful and painfully revealing story of one of America's most controversial Hollywood families, and its...
The Kennedys: An American Drama

Readhowyouwant 16 point large print.
Powerful Bodies: Performance in French Cultural Studies

In the first major overview of the latest and most challenging development in French cultural studies, this volume approaches the field of performance theory in its diverse applications. At the...
The Fords: An American Epic

In The Fords: An American Epic, Peter Collier and David Horowitz tell the riveting story of three generations of Fords, a dramatic story of conflict between fathers and sons played out against the backdrop of America’s greatest industrial ...
The Fords

This is a magnificent epic of an American dynasty and of three generations of Fords who played out the dramatic conflict between fathers and sons against the backdrop of the great industrial empire they built. 32-page black-and-white ...
A Most Incomprehensible Thing: Notes Towards a Very Gentle Introduction to the Mathematics of Relativity

This third edition has been revised to make the material even more accessible to the enthusiastic general reader who seeks to understand the mathematics of relativity.
Downriver: A Novel

History of an American family from the 1870's to the 1960's. When one of their own is raped and murdered, it falls to the last of the Harts to strike...
The Roosevelts: An American Saga

The story of the Roosevelts is usually seen as a tale of two presidents - Theodore and Franklin - who were distant cousins from distinct worlds, separated by time and...
Choosing Courage: Inspiring Stories of What It Means to Be a Hero

What turns an ordinary person into a hero?
The Race Card: White Guilt, Black Resentment, and the Assault on Truth and Justice

The Race Card captures the twisted hypocrisy of many of today's civil rights champions who, by word and by deed, seem more intent on tearing open new wounds than on...
Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture

... matinee melodrama rather than an arcane example of art house modernism . The ' Casablanca ' club is an obvious allusion to the famous wartime Hollywood melodrama , while the prospect of a couple trysting for the last time in an exotic ...
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties

This new edition contains new material which makes this classic work more relevant than ever in our own divided time.
Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties

Proceedings of the Second Thoughts Conference, held Oct. 17-18, 1987, in Washington, D.C. Includes bibliographical references (p. 261) and index.
Downriver

Color illustration on front cover of wooded area with bloody knife laying in stream.
An Introduction to Literature

An Introduction to Literature
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty

The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty