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Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals is a serious, thoughtful and important book. - Bertram Wolfe [A] truly creative thinker...[Viereck] has struck a powerful blow against the local phenomenon of standardized thinking of both right and left. - Louis L. Snyder

<p> Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals is a serious, thoughtful and important book. <p> - Bertram Wolfe <p> [A] truly creative thinker...[Viereck] has struck a powerful blow against the local phenomenon of standardized thinking of both right and left. <p> - Louis L. Snyder

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Peter Viereck (1916-2006) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic, and historian. He held the Kenan Chair in History at Mount Holyoke College and was known as one of America's early leaders of conservatism. He was the recipient of Guggenheim fellowships both in history and poetry. In addition to his contributions to Poetry Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly, his many books include Inner Liberty: The Stubborn Grit in the Machine; Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler;and Conservative Thinkers: From John Adams to Winston Churchill.

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