George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 – March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, mystic, and pro-German propagandist.

Louis joined the Socialist Party in 1870, and eight years later was banished from Berlin under Otto von Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Laws.

[2] While still in college, in 1904, George Sylvester Viereck, with the help of literary critic Ludwig Lewisohn, published his first collection of poems.

[7] The Saturday Evening Post called Viereck "the most widely-discussed young literary man in the United States today".

[9] For his support of Germany and pacifism, Viereck was expelled from several social clubs and fraternal organizations, and had a falling out with a close friend, poet Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff.

[2] Theodore Roosevelt—whom Viereck's father had helped to elect president—once wrote him an angry letter encouraging him to leave the United States and go back to Germany.

[2] In August 1918, a lynch mob stormed Viereck's house in Mount Vernon, forcing him to seek refuge in a New York City hotel.

[17] During the mid-1920s, Viereck went on several additional tours of Europe, interviewing Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau, George Bernard Shaw, Oswald Spengler, Benito Mussolini, Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, Henry Ford, Albert Moll, Magnus Hirschfeld, Albert Einstein,[18] and Sigmund Freud.

He dedicated his poem "Fragments of Olympian Gossip" to Viereck, a work in which Tesla ridiculed the scientific establishment of the day.

"[21] The key members of Congress working with Viereck in this scheme were Sen. Ernest Lundeen,[22] Rep. Hamilton Fish,[23] and Rep. Jacob Thorkelson.

[24] In October 1941, Viereck was indicted in the U.S. for a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act when he set up his publishing house, Flanders Hall, in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

The front matter and backcover text focuses on the situational homosexuality and male rape described in the book (witnessed, not experienced, by Viereck).