Background
Wyden was born Peter Weidenreich, on October 2, 1923 in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish family. His mother, Helen (née Silberstein), was a concert singer, and his father, Erich Weidenreich, was a businessman.
City University of New York, New York City, New York, United States
Peter studied at City University of New York.
Peter H. Wyden interviewed Fidel Castro for six hours for his book on the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Peter H. Wyden
(Eyewitness accounts and revealing interviews with combata...)
Eyewitness accounts and revealing interviews with combatants from both sides, including Fidel Castro and the CIA official who masterminded the invasion, substantiate this dramatic account of America's attempt to overthrow Castro
https://www.amazon.com/Bay-Pigs-Untold-Peter-Wyden/dp/0671240064/?tag=2022091-20
1979
(Details the full story, spanning three continents, of the...)
Details the full story, spanning three continents, of the race to create the atom bomb, the breakthroughs that made it possible, the dropping of the bomb on Japan, and the terrifying consequences.
https://www.amazon.com/Day-One-Before-Hiroshima-After/dp/0671461427/?tag=2022091-20
1985
(the book discusses the events surrounding the erection of...)
the book discusses the events surrounding the erection of the Berlin Wall, the Wall's devastating effect on those living near it, and its major impact on East-West relations.
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-inside-story-divided-Berlin/dp/0671555103/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(The anchorman recounts his childhood in Texas, revealing ...)
The anchorman recounts his childhood in Texas, revealing his youthful ambitions and reminiscing about small town life in pre-World War II America.
https://www.amazon.com/I-Remember-Dan-Rather/dp/0316734403/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(An account of the experiences of Stella Goldschlag, a Ger...)
An account of the experiences of Stella Goldschlag, a German Jew who went on to become a "catcher" for the Gestapo, explores why a Jewish woman would hunt down other Jews for the Nazis.
https://www.amazon.com/Stella-Betrayal-Survival-Hitlers-Germany/dp/0671673610/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(This story of a father guiding his son from despair to ho...)
This story of a father guiding his son from despair to hope is a chilling, inspiring journey through the mysterious tunnel of schizophrenia - a world once closed and forbidding, now suddenly radiating excitement as thousands of patients are, in effect, being reborn. Jeff Wyden, a bright, happy boy in childhood, began to withdraw in adolescence, and by the age of twenty-one was severely psychotic, disconnected from reality. He was schizophrenic. In the ensuing twenty-five years, Peter Wyden accompanied his son into a hell without certainties as they searched for a solution. We see them pass through the hands of more than fifty psychiatrists and countless hospitals, clinics, and halfway houses.
https://www.amazon.com/Conquering-Schizophrenia-Father-Medical-Breakthrough/dp/0679446710/?tag=2022091-20
1998
Wyden was born Peter Weidenreich, on October 2, 1923 in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish family. His mother, Helen (née Silberstein), was a concert singer, and his father, Erich Weidenreich, was a businessman.
Wyden attended the Goldschmidt School until he left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1937. He also studied at the City University of New York.
Wyden came to the United States at age thirteen and started his journalism career at the Daily Metal Reporter in New York City.
He served with the U.S. Army's Psychological Warfare Division in Europe during World War II. After the war, Wyden worked as a reporter for The Wichita Eagle, a feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine, a contributing editor for The Saturday Evening Post in Chicago and San Francisco, articles editor for McCall's, and executive editor for Ladies' Home Journal.
In 1970, Wyden became a book publisher in New York City and Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Along the way he wrote several books, the first of which was Suburbia’s Coddled Kids. Other titles include The Overweight Society: An Authoritative, Entertaining Investigation Into the Facts and Follies of Girth Control, Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story. Other books he wrote studied Berlin, the Spanish Civil War and Hitler’s Germany. His most recent book, 1998’s Conquering Schizophrenia: A Father, His Son and a Medical Breakthrough, chronicled Wyden’s struggles with his son, Jeff, who was mentally ill.
(This story of a father guiding his son from despair to ho...)
1998(Eyewitness accounts and revealing interviews with combata...)
1979(Details the full story, spanning three continents, of the...)
1985(An account of the experiences of Stella Goldschlag, a Ger...)
1992(the book discusses the events surrounding the erection of...)
1989(The anchorman recounts his childhood in Texas, revealing ...)
1991Wyden was married three times. He had two sons, including Ron Wyden, who became a United States senator.