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John T. Flynn, a prolific writer, columnist for the __New Republic__, __Harper's Magazine__, and __Collier's Weekly__, radio commentator, and political activist, was described by the __New York Times__ in 1964 as “a man of wide-ranging contradictions.” In this new biography of Flynn, John E. Moser fleshes out his many contradictions and profound influence on U.S. history and political discourse. In the 1930s, Flynn advocated extensive regulation of the economy, the breakup of holding companies, and heavy taxes on the wealthy. A mere fifteen years later he was denouncing the New Deal as “creeping socialism,” calling for an abolition of the income tax, and hailing Senator Joseph McCarthy and his fellow anticommunists as saviors of the American Republic. Yet throughout his career he insisted that he had remained true to the principles of liberalism as he understood them. It was America's political culture that changed, he argued, and not his values and views. Drawing on Flynn’s life and his prolific writings, Moser illuminates how liberalism in America changed during the mid-twentieth century and considers whether Flynn’s ideological odyssey was the product of opportunism, or the resu

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Author

John E. Moser

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814759745

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Political Science, Social Science