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Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (August 5, 1916 – May 13, 2006), was a Pulitzer Prize - winning poet and influential political thinker as well as a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College for five decades.His collection of poetry, Terror and Decorum, won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry He was also an early leader in the conservative movement, but felt this movement strayed from true conservatism In April 1940, Viereck wrote an article in the Atlantic Monthly ("But—I'm a Conservative!]"[1] ), partly in reaction against the ideologies of his father, George Sylvester Viereck, a Nazi sympathizer:

His grandfather, Louis Viereck, was reputed to be a bastard son of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II.Peter's father, George Sylvester Viereck, was successively a poet in the manner of Algernon Swinburne, a German sabotage agent in the first world war, a rather dodgy journalist in New York, and in the second world war a Nazi propagandist who was imprisoned for his activities.Viereck, meanwhile, born in New York, went to one of the poshest American schools, Phillips Exeter, then graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, and went on to Oxford. Serving with distinction in the US army, he won two battle stars.