Flynn, John T.
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Flynn became an early and avid supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy. This was in part because Flynn (even in his early left-wing views) had always been firmly anticommunist and in part because McCarthy shared Flynn's dislike for the Washington/New York establishment. In 1955, Flynn had a formal falling-out with the new generation of Cold War, conservatives when William F. Buckley, Jr., rejected one of his articles for the new National Review. This submission had attacked militarism as a "job-making boondoggle." Flynn retired from public life in 1960. During his last years (he died in 1964) some of his books were promoted and reprinted by the John Birch Society. For many years Flynn made his home in Bayside, New York in a large compound overlooking Little Neck Bay, with a house and a separate building he used as a broadcasting studio. He was a neighbor and friend of Mrs. James J. Corbett, the widow of boxing champion "Gentleman Jim" Corbett.
Books
While you slept
This is an excellent, slim political book from the 1950's. It shows the love of suppression by one of the dominant political cultures of the United States.
Meet Your Congress
Mr. Flynn says his purpose is to defend Congress against charges of incompetence and worse, and to demonstrate its necessary rôle as a check on the Executive, particularly President Roosevelt, whom he thoroughly dislikes. Yet in so doing he defends some of those very practices which have most discredited Congress in the popular eye.
As we go marching
"As We Go Marching" is a three-part examination of fascism in Italy (part 1) and Germany (part 2). Part 3 ties things together with an examination of Franklin D. Roosevelt's so-called "New Deal." Full Book
Men of wealth
Fugger the Rich.--John Law.--The Rothschilds.--Interlogue one: Cosimo de' Medici, Sir Thomas Gresham, Jacques Coeur. The art and industry of make-up. Writers as money-makers.--Robert Owen.--Cornelius Vanderbilt.--Hetty Green.--Interlogue two: Misers, Poverty.--Mitsui.--Cecil Rhodes.--Basil Zaharoff.--Interlogue three: Hugo Stines, Land fortunes. Dynastic fortunes.--Mark Hanna.--John D. Rockefeller.--J. Pierpont Morgan.