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Collier, Peter Anthony was born on June 2, 1939 in Hollywood, California, United States. Son of Donnovan L. and Doris Y. (Cohen) Collier.
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This is the story of an American dynasty, a saga of immense dimensions cast against the backdrop of our country's history, with a spectacular array of characters. Here are the myths, rumors, scandals and, above all, the endlessly enthralling, often shocking truth about this unparalleled American family.
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Drawing on extensive interviews and brimming with trenchant anecdotes, this historical portrait casts new light on the pivotal events and personalities that shaped the Roosevelt legacy—from Eleanor's often brutal relationship with her children and Theodore Jr.'s undoing in the 1924 New York gubernatorial race, to the heroism of Teddy's sons during both World Wars and FDR's loveless marriage. The Roosevelts is a brilliant and controversial account of twentieth-century American political culture as seen through the lens of its preeminent political dynasty. Peter Collier shows how Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, along with their descendants, scrambled to define the direction that American politics would take. The Oyster Bay clan, influenced by the flamboyant Teddy, was extroverted, eccentric, tradition-bound, and family-oriented. They represented an age of American innocence that would be replaced by Franklin's Hyde Park Roosevelts, who were aloof and cold yet individualistic and progressive. The Roosevelts is history at its most penetrating, a crucial work that illuminates the foundations of contemporary, American politics.
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The Fords: An American Epic is the dramatic story of three generations of Fords and of the dramatic conflict between fathers and sons played out against the backdrop of America's greatest industrial empire. The story begins with Henry I, the mechanical wizard, tinkerer, and mad genius who drove the automobile into the heart of American life and conquered the world with it. But in the end he became an embittered crank who so possessively loved the company he built that when his son, Edsel, tried to change it to suit the times, Henry destroyed him. It was left to Edsel's son, Henry II, to avenge him and save the Ford Motor Company. From the details of Henry I's illicit affair, which produced an illegitimate son, to the life and loves of "Hank the Deuce" and his celebrated feud with Lee Iacocca, this is an engrossing account of a vital chapter in American history. The authors have added a new preface to this now classic work, showing how Henry II's line lost out to the line of his brother William Clay Ford in the quest to control the company in the twentieth century.
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Against a richly detailed backdrop of history, the story of this unique American family unfolds. It begins with John D. Rockefeller Sr., who amassed a fortune amid the muck and disorder of the Pennsylvania oil fields and left his son to deal with the public outcry. It follows Rockefeller Jr. as he built the charities and foundations that made the name a public institution. And it tracks the lives of the 5 Rockefeller brothers. Here then is Laurance, clever and charming as a youth, burned out and cynical by middle age; Winthrop, the shy, awkward, black sheep who finally made a mark for himself in the eyes of everyone but his family; JDR3, introverted and anxious even after years of proving himself; David, a man on the move who took the nation's front-ranking bank and made it number 3; and Nelson, ambitious, aggressive, the brother who broke the unwritten family code.
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Collier, Peter Anthony was born on June 2, 1939 in Hollywood, California, United States. Son of Donnovan L. and Doris Y. (Cohen) Collier.
Peter Collier was born in Hollywood, California, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Bachelor in English in 1961.
He was the founding publisher of Encounter Books in California and held that position from 1998 until he resigned in 2005. The company moved from San Francisco to New York City, and Collier was replaced as publisher by Roger Kimball. He continues as a consultant to the company.
Initially allied with liberal causes, Collier has moved right and collaborated with conservative writer David Horowitz on many projects over many decades, e.g., co-editor of Ramparts.
And publishing articles on Horowitz"s FrontPageMagazine.com. He has served as a co-author with Horowitz on several history and critical books (including The Anti-Chomsky Reader (2004)).
Collier was a co-organizer of the Second Thoughts conferences for ex-leftists who had moved to the right. He served as a civil rights activist in the South in 1964.
Returning to California, Collier taught Freshman English at University of California Berkeley from 1964-1969.
He became literary editor of Ramparts Magazine in 1967. He served as editor of that magazine from 1968-1972 along with David Horowitz, whom he became acquainted with at Berkeley in the late 1950s. In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
He returned to University of California Berkeley as a Lecturer in Creative Writing from 1978-1981.
Collier has contributed reviews to various publications. He is on the editorial board of World Affairs, a quarterly international affairs journal.
Collier is a fellow of the National Endowment of the Arts (1980). He lectured abroad for the United States Information Service in 1980, 1987, and 1998.
Collier lives with his family in Nevada City, California.
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Married Mary Josephine Giachino, September 27, 1967. Children: Andrew, Caitlin, Nicholas.