Throughout the book is the seeming conflict between the extremely pious Baptist devotion of John D. (Think the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, trust-busters such as Teddy Roosevelt, and muckrakers such as Ida Tarbell's The History of Standard Oil.) If you have an interest in detail on all 3 subjects I highly recommend this book. It is a biography, a history of the commercial discovery and development of oil in Pennsylvania, and a history of the formulation (and eventual dissolution) of business trust of Standard Oil. was still alive and it is available for free reading at the link above. This book was published in 1932 while John D. Rockefeller, that is, the founder of Standard Oil. This submission had attacked militarism as a 'job-making boondoggle.' Flynn retired from public life in 1960.

Buckley, Jr., rejected one of his articles for the new National Review. In 1955, Flynn had a formal falling-out with the new generation of Cold War conservatives when William F. 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. An early critic of American involvement in the affairs of Indochina, he maintained that sending US troops would 'only be proving the case of the Communists against America that we are defending French imperialism.'įlynn became an early and avid supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy. In 1939, he predicted that Social Security would be under water by 1970, and insolvent by 1980.ĭuring the Cold War period, Flynn continued his opposition to interventionist foreign policies and militarism. Roosevelt for president but criticized the New Deal. Like Oswald Garrison Villard, another key figure in the Old Right, Flynn was a leftist with populist inclinations during this period. He became one of the best-known political commentators in the United States. During the 1920s and 1930s, he wrote articles for such leading publications as The New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and Collier's Weekly. He started at the New Haven Register, but eventually moved to New York there he was financial editor of the New York Globe. Roosevelt and to American entry into World War II.

American journalist best known for his opposition to President Franklin D.

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