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New York: Jackson Press, 1919. Hardcover. xix, 159p. hardcover, bumped corner, otherwise very good. Viereck, a noted poet who had become infamous as a pro-German propagandist in WWI, here discusses how Teddy Roosevelt, with whom he had had a friendly relationship up to the early stages of WWI, had become a fierce detractor. He uses the concepts of Freudian analysis to characterize the former president. Viereck went on to serve a prison term in WWII for his actions as a Nazi agent. Renewed attention has been drawn to him by Rachel Maddow in her 2022 podcast "Ultra," about pro-Nazi propagandists in the period leading up to WWII; she discusses how several US Congressmen worked with Viereck to disseminate Nazi propaganda through isolationist channels.

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New York: Jackson Press, Inc, 1919. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good. 159, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Format is approximately 5 inches by 7.75 inches. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Pencil erasure noted on fep. Minor endpaper discoloration. George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 - March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and pro-Nazi propagandist. While still in college, in 1904, George Sylvester Viereck, with the help of literary critic Ludwig Lewisohn, published his first collection of poems. He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1906. The next year his collection Nineveh and Other Poems (1907) won Viereck national fame. A number were written in the style of the Uranian male love poetry of the time. The Saturday Evening Post called Viereck "the most widely-discussed young literary man in the United States today". During World War I he edited a German-sponsored weekly magazine, The Fatherland.… Read More

New York: Jackson Press, 1919. Hardcover. xix, 159p. hardcover, endpapers toned, mild shelfwear, otherwise very good. Inscribed by Viereck to Konrad Nies, the foremost German American poet of the previous generation (Viereck himself having often been lauded as the foremost German-American poet of the subsequent generation). Viereck, a noted poet who had become infamous as a pro-German propagandist in WWI, here discusses how Teddy Roosevelt, with whom he had had a friendly relationship up to the early stages of WWI, had become a fierce detractor. He uses the concepts of Freudian analysis to characterize the former president. Viereck went on to serve a prison term in WWII for his actions as a Nazi agent. Renewed attention has been drawn to him by Rachel Maddow in her 2022 podcast "Ultra," about pro-Nazi propagandists in the period leading up to WWII; she discusses how several US Congressmen worked with Viereck to disseminate Nazi propaganda through isolationist channels.