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010 $a 2004022344
020 $a0814757006 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aE748.F58$bM67 2005
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100 1 $aMoser, John E.,$d1966-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98018173
245 10 $aRight turn :$bJohn T. Flynn and the transformation of American liberalism /$cJohn E. Moser.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$c2005.
300 $aix, 276 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"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." "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 result of a set of deep-seated principles that he championed consistently over the years. In addition, Right Turn examines Flynn's role in laying the foundations for the "culture war" that would be played out in American society for the rest of the century, helping to define modern American conservation."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aFlynn, John T.,$d1882-1964.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50003601
650 0 $aPolitical activists$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109187
650 0 $aJournalists$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106101
650 0 $aLiberalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106861
650 0 $aConservatism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100500
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1933-1953.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140465
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip051/2004022344.html
852 00 $bglx$hE748.F58$iM67 2005