"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. |
