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Peter Anthony Dale Collier ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɒ|l|i|ər}}; born June 2, 1939)[1] is an American writer and publisher. 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.[2] With David Horowitz, Collier wrote multiple books that made the New York Times Best Seller list and was called by the New York Times Book Review, "the premier biographer of American dynastic tragedy." His book Medal of Honor: Profiles of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty (2003) profiles living recipients of the Medal. Collier was teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966 when he became an editor at Ramparts magazine, the splashy, four-color publication that was influential in transmitting New Left ideas into the mainstream. Collier wrote about the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement and other radical organizations for Ramparts. He edited Ramparts until 1972. As the Vietnam War came to an end, he and fellow Ramparts writer David Horowitz became disillusioned when the New Left turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed by the communist victors in Southeast Asia—the tiger cages and boat people in South Vietnam, the genocide in Cambodia. They began a slow motion political transition that led them away from the Left and ultimately made them, in their own term, "second thoughters" engaged in ongoing political combat with their former comrades. {{Citation needed|date=April 2018}} Collier and Horowitz traveled to Nicaragua in 1987 at the invitation of the State Department to encourage the "civic resistance" against the Sandinistas. {{Citation needed|date=April 2018}} The same year they organized a "Second Thoughts Convention" in Washington D.C. Their book about leaving the Left and becoming its enemies, Destructive Generation (1989), was compared to Whittaker Chambers' Witness. {{By whom|date=April 2018}} He has served as a co-author with Horowitz on several books on American history and political science. Their biographies The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976) and The Kennedys: An American Drama (1984) both made the New York Times Best Seller list.[3][4] The Kennedys also made the year-end New York Times notable books of the year list in 1984.[5] Later, they co-wrote critical of the left and of leftists, including The Anti-Chomsky Reader (2004). He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Reader's Digest, The New Republic, Commentary, The Weekly Standard and other publications. He was a co-founder with Horowitz of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. LifeHe was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and attended Hollywood Progressive School. He grew up in Burbank and attended the University of California, Berkeley, earning a B.A. in English in 1961 and a M.A. in 1963. He served as a civil rights activist in the South in 1964. Returning to California, Collier taught Freshman English at UC Berkeley from 1964 to 1969 and again as a Visiting Writer from 1977-81. He also taught at UC Santa Cruz and at Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama. 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.[6] WorksCo-authored with David Horowitz
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/calbirths?c=search&first=peter&last=collier&spelling=Exact&4_year=&4_month=0&4_day=0&5=&7=&SubmitSearch.x=0&SubmitSearch.y=0|title=Free Family Tree, Genealogy and Family History - MyHeritage|website=www.familytreelegends.com|accessdate=28 August 2017}} 2. ^"[https://www.encounterbooks.com/authors/peter-collier/ Peter Collier]". Encounter Books. encounterbooks.com. Retrieved 24 November 2017. 3. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/04/archives/best-seller-list.html|title=Best Seller List|work=The New York Times|date=July 4, 1976|accessdate=August 28, 2018}} 4. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/16/books/best-sellers-dec-16-1984fiction-1.html|title=Best Sellers|work=The New York Times|date=December 16, 1984|accessdate=August 28, 2018}} 5. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/02/books/notable-books-of-the-year.html|title=Notable books of the year|work=The New York Times|date=December 2, 1984|accessdate=August 28, 2018}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Medal-of-Honor/Peter-Collier/e/9781579653149|title=Medal of Honor (Commemorative 150th Anniversary Edition)|first=Barnes &|last=Noble|website=Barnes & Noble|accessdate=28 August 2017}} External links
8 : 1939 births|Living people|American political writers|American male non-fiction writers|People from Hollywood, Los Angeles|University of California, Berkeley alumni|American tax resisters|People from Nevada City, California |
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