Flynn remarks on the impetus behind this powerful book:
I wrote this book to answer a question that practically everybody is asking: “Where are we heading?” More people ask that question than any other.... I thought it was about time for someone to answer it candidly and with blunt facts.
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John T. Flynn was a journalist, author, and master polemicist of the Old Right. He started out as a liberal columnist for that flagship of American liberalism, the New Republic, and wound up on the Right, denouncing “creeping socialism.” What is unusual about Flynn is that instead of being seduced by the New Deal and the Popular Front into supporting the war, Flynn was led by his thoroughgoing antiwar stance to challenge the developing state worship of modern liberalism. Flynn’s essential insight — that the threat to America is not to be found in any foreign capitol, but in Washington, D.C.
"The commonly accepted theory that Fascism originated in the conspiracy of the great industrialists to capture the state will not hold. It originated on the Left."
It was his melancholy good fortune to come upon the scene when the world went in for arms on an unprecedented scale and it was he who, more than any other man, developed the international market for arms.
In much of America, the New Deal was run by a small number of very powerful political bosses.
NY: Devin-Adair, 1949
