As We Go Marching

JOHN T. FLYNN was an author and journalist, a social critic with wide-ranging interests. Born in 1882, Flynn was a graduate of Georgetown University Law School. He made his career in journalism, working for such publications as the New York Globe and the New Haven Register. During the 1930’s he wrote for the New Republic, and he also served as an adviser to the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, economic affairs being one of his journalistic specialties. He was also a lecturer on contemporary economics at the New School for Social Research at this time.

As a strong critic of militarism and domestic statism, Flynn opposed America’s drift towards war prior to World War II and was chairman of the America First Committee in New York. In 1940, he published one of many books, Country Squire in the White House, a critical study of President Roosevelt. As We Go Marching, his indictment of American fascism was published in 1944.

During the 1950’s his views were emphatically right-wing, but still concerned with limiting the power of government. In addition to writing books on American foreign policy in Asia and other subjects, he was a network radio commentator. Flynn died in 1964 at the age of 81.

RONALD RADOSH is Associate Professor of History at Queensborough Community College, C.U.N.Y., and is a member of the Graduate Faculty of the City University of New York. He is author of American Labor and United States Foreign Policy (Random House, 1970). He is now completing a study of the critique of American foreign policy made by leading “conservatives,” including John T. Flynn, Charles A. Beard, Oswald Garrison Villard, and Robert A. Taft. This work will be published in September 1974 by Simon and Schuster.