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Peter Collier

Peter Collier
Peter Collier is the founding editor and currently a consultant to Encounter Books. He has worked as an author and editor for the last thirty years. During that time, he has written novels, short stories and screenplays, along with best selling biographies. Referred to in the New York Times as "America's premier biographer of dynastic tragedy," Collier is best known for The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty; The Kennedys: An American Dream; The Fords: An American Epic; and Destructive Generation (all with David Horowitz). He is also the author of The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty and The Roosevelts: An American Saga. Recent books include Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty, with photographs by Nick Del Calzo, and The Anti-Chomsky Reader, co-edited with David Horowitz.

Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick

Political Woman

The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick

By Peter Collier | Hardcover $27.99

Political Woman is the first biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan’s UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration in shaping the Reagan Doctrine and fighting the Cold War to a victorious conclusion. Based on countless interviews and unique access to her private papers, Political Woman creates a portrait of an ambitious woman [...]

The Anti-Chomsky Reader

The Anti-Chomsky Reader

By Peter Collier & David Horowitz | Paperback $17.95

In The Anti-Chomsky Reader, editors Peter Collier and David Horowitz have assembled a set of essays that analyze Chomsky’s intellectual career and the evolution of his anti-Americanism.

The Fords: An American Epic

The Fords

An American Epic

By Peter Collier | paperback $16.95

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 [...]