Peter Robert Edwin Viereck was an American writer, poet and professor of history at Mount Holyoke College.
10 Facts About Peter Viereck
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Peter Viereck won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1949 for the collection Terror and Decorum.
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Peter Viereck published collections of poems, some first published in Poetry Magazine.
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Peter Viereck won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1949 for the collection Terror and Decorum.
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Peter Viereck retired in 1987 but continued to teach his Russian history survey course there until 1997.
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Peter Viereck died on May 13,2006, in South Hadley, Massachusetts after a prolonged illness.
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Peter Viereck in the 1940s was an early leader in the conservative movement but by 1951 felt that it had strayed from true conservatism.
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Peter Viereck claimed communism and Nazism were utopian and would sanction the murder of oppositions and that liberalism shared a naive belief in progress and humanity's essential goodness.
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Peter Viereck's beliefs are difficult to categorize as they raise questions about what "conservative" really means:.
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Peter Viereck was an admirer of the New Deal, a supporter of Adlai Stevenson and an anti-communist who made it clear that he had little use for Sen.