Confessions of a Barbarian

By: Vierick, George Sylvester

This book of mine happens to be the bestselling non-fiction book in New York City. It happens to have been published in two languages. This fall John Lane will bring out an edition in England. The Ambassador of the United States, Dr. David Jayne Hill, has presented a copy of the book to the Kaiser. I have touched on many serious problems. I admit that I have written brilliantly; and it has always been characteristic of dull minds to suspect brilliancy of shallowness. Most people, especially amateur critics, seem to find it impossible to understand that a man may clever without being insincere. I have been in Germany, where I have spoken to some of the most important men in the Empire. Ministers of State and Ambassadors: and I have come in touch with the genius of the land. Between the lines of my book you will find hints of diplomatic secrets and traces of intimate knowledge of things German-American.... Gertrude Atherton, who knows Germany as well as this Country, calls it "really a memorable work." And finally James Huneker, perhaps our greatest living critic. has expressed himself as follows: "The spectacle of young Viereck spanking two nations in his 'Confessions' is enough to arouse the marble bust of his once famous grandmother, Edna Viereck. at the Royal Theater. Berlin; or to stir the envy of the first and only Shavian, G. B. S... George Sylvester Viereck is the head of a long line of American Super-Boys His book is flown with the frank insolence and effervescing wine of brilliant youth... He knows, like most poets, absolutely nothing of men and women, of art or of life, and that is his chief charm.... The fires of inexperience are more creative than the slag and cinders of wisdom.... Truth has been known to pop forth from the mouths of babes."-GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK, New York City

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B085RTMBNX
• ISBN13: 9798626518122
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"