Peter Dale Scott

For other people named Peter Scott, see Peter Scott (disambiguation).
Peter Dale Scott
Peter Dale Scott
Scott in 2007
Born (1929-01-11) January 11, 1929 (age 95)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationPoet, Academic, Diplomat
EducationMcGill University
University College, Oxford
Institut d'Etudes Politiques
GenrePolitics, Deep State, Poetry
Notable works
  • Cocaine Politics (1991)
  • Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993)
  • Minding the Darkness (2000)
  • The Road to 9/11 (2007)
  • American War Machine (2010)
  • The American Deep State (2014)
Notable awardsLannan Literary Award (2002)
SpouseRonna Kabatznick
Website
www.peterdalescott.net Edit this at Wikidata

Peter Dale Scott (born 11 January 1929)[1] is a Canadian-born poet, academic, and former diplomat. A son of the Canadian poet and constitutional lawyer F. R. Scott and painter Marian Dale Scott, he is best known for his critiques of deep politics and American foreign policy since the era of the Vietnam War. Notably, he was a signatory in 1968 of the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, in which participants vowed to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[2]

Although trained as a political scientist, Scott holds an atypical academic appointment as a poet-scholar in an English department.

  1. ^ W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 1028.
  2. ^ "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest", New York Post, January 30, 1968