| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism. By John E. Moser. (New York: New York University Press, 2005. x, 277 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8147-5700-6.)

This book is an informative, insightful account of the career of a once-popular opinion-maker named John T. Flynn. Flynn began his career in the late 1920s, writing columns on economics for Colliers, the Globe, and eventually the New Republic. His condemnations of American business gained him a reputation as a liberal, even a leftist. He was an editor for John Dewey's journal Common Sense, and his lectures were broadcast on socialist stations. John E. Moser maintains, however, that Flynn's views were actually quite moderate, best described as middle-class progressive with a tendency toward conspiracy. Flynn blamed corrupt individuals for economic problems, for instance, not the system itself. Nonetheless, he was extremely skeptical of leaving businessmen in charge of the economy and advocated some sort of national planning.

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