Peter H. Wyden

Peter H. Wyden (2 October 1923 – 27 June 1998)^[1] was an American journalist and writer.

Life and career

Wyden was born Peter Weidenreich, in Berlin to a Jewish family. His mother, Helen (née Silberstein), was a concert singer, and his father, Erich Weidenreich, was a businessman. He attended the Goldschmidt School until he left Nazi Germany and went to the United States in 1937.^[2][3] After studying at City University of New York, he served with the U.S. Army's Psychological Warfare Division in Europe during World War II.^[4] After the war, he began a career in journalism, during which he worked as a reporter for The Wichita Eagle, a feature writer for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine, a contributing editor for The Saturday Evening Post in Chicago and San Francisco, articles editor for McCall's, and executive editor for Ladies' Home Journal.^[4] He authored or coauthored nine books, and numerous articles that appeared in major magazines.^[4] In 1970, he became a book publisher in New York City and Ridgefield, Connecticut.^[4]

He was father of Senator Ron Wyden.^[5] Franz Weidenreich, German anatomist and physical anthropologist, was one of his uncles.

Works

• Suburbia's Coddled Kids. 1962. New Jersey: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
• Bay of Pigs – The Untold Story. 1979. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-24006-4 ISBN 0224017543 ISBN 978-0-671-24006-6
• Day One: Before Hiroshima and After. 1985. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1984 ISBN 0-671-46142-7
• Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany. Anchor Books, 1993. ISBN 978-0385471794

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