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1	Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals: Babbitt Jr. Vs. the Rediscovery of Values more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! signed copies \| first editions
2	Terror and Decorum: Poems, 1940-1948 more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! new only from $54.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Shame & Glory of the Intellectuals more books like this by Peter Viereck add to wishlist In this classic volume, written at the height of the Cold War, with a new preface of 2006, Peter Viereck, one of the foremost intellectual spokesmen of modern conservatism, examines the differing responses of American and European intellectuals to the twin threats of Nazism and Soviet communism. In so doing, he seeks to formulate a humanistic ... see all copies from $7.16! new only from $32.13! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Tide and Continuities: Last and First Poems 1995-1938 more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, Joseph Brodsky (Foreword by) add to wishlist Peter Viereck's career has been an ongoing experiment in the symbiosis of poetry and history. Tide and Continuities is the embodiment and culmination of that career. It includes many poems never before published, and work--some with stunning revisions--from books as recent as his 1987 epic, Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles, and as early ... see all copies from $2.87! new only from $19.99! \| first editions
5	The Unadjusted Man: A New Hero for Americans: Reflections on the Distinction Between Conforming and Conserving more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $2.95! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, Claes Ryn (Introduction by) add to wishlist Peter Viereck, poet and historian, is one of the principle theoreticians of conservatism in modern American political thought. In this classic work, Viereck undertakes a penetrating and unorthodox analysis of that quintessential conservative, Prince Metternich, and offers evidence that cultural and political conservatism may perhaps be best ... see all copies from $18.50! new only from $18.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Strict Wildness: Discoveries in Poetry and History more books like this by Peter Viereck add to wishlist A reviewer once called Peter Viereck's thought "not common sense but inspired, electric common sense." This volume of Viereck's selected essays on poetry and on history, written between 1938 through 2004, exemplifies this quality. Its main theme is suggested in Viereck's coined phrase "strict wildness," which suggests a balance between restraint ... see all copies from $10.95! new only from $41.64! \| SVS
8	Conservative Thinkers: From John Adams to Winston Churchill more books like this by Peter Viereck add to wishlist Across America today, conservatism is being hotly debated both across the political spectrum and within the conservative movement itself. Much of the public debate is without definition or historical context. This history of conservatism by renowned historian, social critic, and poet Peter Viereck aims to meet the need for a concise, balanced ... see all copies from $22.91! new only from $26.52! \| SVS
9	Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (Introduction by) add to wishlist This work, first published in 1941, indicts Hitler in terms of the Judaic-Christian ethical tradition and locating certain elements of the Nazi worldview in German romantic poetry, music, and social thought. This work remains a cultural interpretation of Nazism and totalitarianism and in the psychological interpretation of Hitler as a Wagnerite ... see all copies from $30.43! new only from $30.44! \| SVS
10	The Tree Witch: A Poem and Play (First of All a Poem) more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $6.12! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles of 1967-1987 more books like this by Peter Vierick, Peter Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
12	Conservatism: From John Adams to Churchill more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck add to wishlist Such profound thinkers as Coleridge, Cardinal Newman, Disraeli, Ortegay Gasset, Irving Babbitt, and some of America's founding fathers are represented in this book. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
13	Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles, 1967-1987 by Peter Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $2.83! signed copies \| first editions
14	Conservatism Revisited more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck add to wishlist Viereck examines the ethics and political philosophy of the New Conservatism and explains why this movement has, in part deservedly, failed. see all copies from $15.00! signed copies \| first editions
15	Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment: Where History and Literature Intersect more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (Introduction by) add to wishlist A biting critique of the American desire for normalcy that leads to a culture of the surrender of the personality. In contrast to this voluntary thought control process is the unadjusted person. Cast in the mould of great individualists from Thomas More to Friedrich Nietzsche, such a person responds to fundamental values of conscience rather than ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $47.94!
16 view cover	Transplantings: Essays on Great German Poets with Translations more books like this by Peter Viereck, Irving Louis Horowitz (Editor), Daniel Weissbort (Preface by) add to wishlist On being told that "translation is an impossible thing," Anatole France replied: "precisely, my friend; the recognition of that truth is a necessary preliminary to success in art." The task of Transplantings is to add flesh and bones to that familiar quip. Indeed, Daniel Weissbort notes that Viereck's study represented a sixty-five year long ... see all copies from $34.22! new only from $34.22! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Conservatism by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $2.95!
18	The Roots of the Nazi Mind (Meta-Politics) by Peter Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00!
19 view cover	Door more books like this by Peter Viereck add to wishlist Peter Viereck's original poetry has been enjoyed by readers for more than 50 years. This new collection continues to explore the themes of knowledge, freedom, death, and time. Continuing his deep commitment to the use of rhyme, these pieces manipulate words and syntax to create the startling verbal effects for which the poet is famous. Also ... see all copies from $11.36! first editions
20 view cover	The Tree Witch: A Poem and Play, First of All a Play by Peter Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! new only from $15.03! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	New and selected poems, 1932-1967 more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $4.50! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	The first morning : new poems. more books like this by Peter Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $6.50! signed copies \| first editions
23	Conservatism revisited : the revolt against revolt, 1815-1949 more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $4.95! signed copies \| first editions
24	The persimmon tree : new pastoral and lyrical poems. more books like this by Peter Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $5.97! first editions
25	Inner Liberty by Peter Viereck add to wishlist see all copies from $3.74! first editions

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