Books by Peter Wyden and Complete Book Reviews
Peter Wyden, Author . Arcade $27.95 (340p) ISBN 978-1-55970-532-5
The virus referred to in the title of this uneven but passionate book is the staying power of Hitler and his ideology, a half-century after the end of WWII. Wyden (Stella), who, as a child, escaped from the Nazis before the war, focuses on many of...
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Peter Wyden, Author William Morrow & Company $0 (416p) ISBN 978-0-688-06616-1
When his subject refused to grant an interview, Wyden (Bay of Pigs, Day One, etc.) turned to the published record and quotes from relatives, friends, associates, competitors, journalists and psychologists for this biography of Lido Anthony ""Lee''...
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Peter Wyden, Author Simon & Schuster $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-55510-8
Erected in 1961 to stop the mass exodus of East Germans to the West, the Berlin Wall is a grim symbol of the Cold War. Wyden describes superpower confrontations in which the Wall has been central, and reveals in detail the policies and punishments...
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Peter Wyden, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67361-1
A blonde, blue-eyed, beautiful Jewess, Stella Goldschlag exploited her looks and sex as a ``catcher'' for the Gestapo, hunting down hundreds of fellow Jews who were then sent to Nazi death camps. Wyden ( Bay of Pigs ), who fled Hitler's Germany in...
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Peter Wyden, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-44671-2
Wyden has written one of the better memoirs of schizophrenia, largely because he makes it clear that, despite the confidence of the mental health profession, nobody ""knows precisely what schizophrenia is or how to diagnose it."" Diagnosed with...
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