"Modest Proposal: A Vice-Presidential Speech in a Surrealist Future"
Title | "Modest Proposal: A Vice-Presidential Speech in a Surrealist Future" |
Year for Search | 1956 |
Authors | Viereck, Peter [Robert Edwin](1916-2006) |
Secondary Title | The Unadjusted Man: A New Hero for Americans. Reflections on the Distinction Between Conforming and Conserving |
Pagination | 223-27 |
Date Published | 1956 |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Place Published | Boston, MA |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | Satire. U.S. Republican Vice President stating that conformity and fun will be legally required. |
Holding Institutions | NZ |
Author Note | The author (1916-2006) was a professor of History at Mount Holyoke College and a leading U.S. conservative. |
Full Text | 1956 Viereck, Peter [Robert Edwin] (1916-2006). “Modest Proposal: A Vice-Presidential Speech in a Surrealist Future.” In his The Unadjusted Man: A New Hero for Americans. Reflections on the Distinction Between Conforming and Conserving (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1956), 223-27. NZ Satire with a U.S. Republican Vice President stating that conformity and fun will be legally required. The author was a professor of History at Mount Holyoke College and a leading U.S. conservative. |