Peter Schweizer (Political Advisor)
Peter Franz Schweizer (born November 24, 1964 ) is a right-wing conservative American journalist , author and political advisor.
Live and act
Schweizer studied at George Washington University with a bachelor's degree and at Oxford University (with an M. Phil ..). He worked for the National Forum Foundation (NFF) of Jeremiah Denton and published in the 1980s about the Sandinista in Nicaragua and about alleged deaths of Europeans who supported the Strategic Defense Initiative . He also published a book about Ronald Reagan victorious in the Cold War in 2002 , which was made into a film by Stephen Bannon . He was a William J. Casey Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He was also an advisor to the US President's Office of Presidential Speech Writing in 2008/09, after which he and others founded the consulting firm Oval Office Writers in Washington DC. He is President of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) in Tallahassee, which conducts investigative journalism in the right-wing anti-establishment environment (Stephen Bannon is also a member). Swiss lives in Florida.
He became known through books in which he documented insider trading by Washington politicians, for example, and a book Clinton Cash , in which he investigates the interweaving of the Clinton clan and its foundation with lobbyist interests. The book covers, among other things, the case of Marc Rich, who was pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2001, and donations from the Ericsson company to the Clintons in order to obtain an exemption from the sanctions rules for trade with Iran, among other things. Other examples are the donations from Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi and Uranium One . He accuses the Clintons of corruption in the context of donations to their foundation and exorbitantly high donations, which are disguised as fees for lectures.
He published two novels with the former Defense Minister Caspar Weinberger . He published about the Bush dynasty and the interdependence of politics and business at Jeb Bush .
His articles have appeared in the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Foreign Affairs , Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times , among others .
He was a member of the Ultraterrorism Study Group at Sandia National Laboratories and an advisor to NBC News .
Fonts
- Grinning with the Gipper: Wit, Wisdom and Wisecracks of Ronald Reagan, 1988
- Friendly Spies: How America's Allies Are Using Economic Espionage to Steal Our Secrets, 1992
- Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Atlantic Monthly Press 1994
- with Caspar Weinberger: The Next War, 1998
- Disney: The Mouse Betrayed: Greed, Corruption and Children at Risk, 1998
- Fall Of The Wall: Reassessing the Causes and Consequences of the End of the Cold War, Hoover Institution Press, 2000
- Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, Doubleday 2002, Random House 2003
- with Rochelle Schweizer: The Bushes: portrait of a dynasty, Doubleday 2004
- The Reagan Presidency: Assessing the Man and His Legacy, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005
- Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, Doubleday 2005
- with Caspar Weinberger: Chain of Command, 2006
- Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement. Texas A&M University Press, 2006
- Makers and Takers: Why conservatives work harder, feel happier, have closer families, take fewer drugs, give more generously, value honesty more, are less materialistic and envious, whine less ... and even hug their children more than liberals, Doubleday 2008
- Architects of Ruin: How a Gang of Radical Activists and Liberal Politicians Destroyed Trillions of Dollars in Wealth in the Pursuit of Social Justice, Harper 2009
- Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
- Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
- Bush Bucks: How Public Service and Corporations Helped Make Jeb Rich, 2015
- Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, Harper Broadside Books 2015
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swiss, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swiss, Peter Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American right-wing journalist, author, and political advisor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1964 |